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Axinite-(Fe)

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Axinite-(Fe)

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Description
Locality: 
Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery district, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
205.00gr
Description

Purplish-brown crystals of ferrian axinite perched on a grayish-green tremolite-actinolite matrix with minor quartz and arsenopyrite, a typical association from the famous Rosebery skarn outcrop in Tasmania. This specimen was found at the beginning of the new millennium. Nowadays, they are scarce in this quality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Axinite-(Fe)

Formula: 
Ca2Fe2+Al2BSi4O15OH
Strunz: 
9.BD.20
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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