Labradorite

Labradorite is truely a fancinatingly beautiful mineral. Its  a whose charmed
is not fully noticed and may be  overlooked if  not viewed from the proper
position. Generally a dull, dark looking mineral with no special viture until
the colorful shiller is observed glowing on the surface. Labradorite can produce a colorful play of light across cleavage plans and in sliced sections called labradorescence.

Color is gray.
Luster is dull.
Transparency crystals are transparent to translucent.

Crystal system is triclinic; bar 1.
Hardness is 6-6.5.
Streak is white.


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