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Viridine

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Trikorfo, Theologos, Thasos, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Intense green viridine (rare Mn andalusite variety) in quartz-feldspar matrix with minor yellow brown kyanite.Viridine from this locality is mostly massive but also in well formed crystals (probably the finest worldwide).Locality and it's minerals (including viridine) are described in 4/2017 Lapis.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Viridine

Variety Of: 

Andalusite

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AF.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Formula: 
(Al,Mn3+)2SiO4O
Hardness: 
0.0

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