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Hyalite Opal

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Hyalite Opal

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Description
Locality: 
Mytilene, Lesbos Island, North Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6 × 3 cm
Description

Water clear botryoidal hyalite opal crust on volcanic rock matrix. Hyalite in Greece is known only from Lesvos island where collecting is very difficult as most occurrences are in private lands and permission is hardly given.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Opal

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

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