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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2025 14:09    Post subject: Adularia from Switzerland  

This large specimen of adularia with chlorite coating came with the locality Val Cristalina, Switzerland.
It was in the collection of a well know American collector (dec. 1997)

I cannot find this locality. Is it known by another name?



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 Mineral: albite
 Dimensions: 13 cm X 5 cm X 5 cm
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2025 15:37    Post subject: Re: Adularia from Switzerland  

I have a similar specimen, which was labeled "Val Cristallina, near Medel, Grisons, Switzerland". There is a Mindat page for the location:
http://www.mindat.org/loc-29363.html
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2025 15:47    Post subject: Re: Adularia from Switzerland  

Translated from Wikipedia (german version)

The Val Cristallina is a mountain valley in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

The valley is located in the municipality of Medel (Lucmagn) and leads from the hamlet of Pardatsch in Val Medel to the Cristallina Pass. It is crossed by the Rein da Cristallina and divides into the Val Uffiern (to the east) and the Val Casatscha (to the south) at an altitude of around 1770 m above sea level.

Parts of the valley are listed in the Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance[1], the entire eastern side of the valley in the Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance[2].

The Swiss army has maintained a firing range in the valley since the 1980s. In the zoning plan of the municipality of Medel (Lucmagn), Val Cristallina is located in the landscape protection and quiet zone. A draft revision, which provided for a rezoning with regard to the construction of the shooting range, was rejected by the municipality's voters by 196 votes to 43[3].

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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2025 18:13    Post subject: Re: Adularia from Switzerland  

Thank you. The .name was not spelled correctly. Found a picture of a very similar specimen on Mindat
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2025 18:15    Post subject: Re: Adularia from Switzerland  

Thank you, A simple spelling mistake on the label
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PostPosted: Jan 29, 2025 05:56    Post subject: Re: Adularia from Switzerland  

Not the first and not the last, plus names change

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Thank you, A simple spelling mistake on the label
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