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Opal Var Hyalite Opal

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Opal Var Hyalite Opal

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Description
Locality: 
Mytilene, Lesbos Island, North Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

Water clear transparent hyalite botryoidals on volcanic rock matrix.Lesvos island is the only locality in Greece for top hyalite.Specimens hardly reach market as occurences are in private properties and permission for collecting is very difficult to get.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White

Hyalite

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

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