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Viridine

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Trikorfo, Theologos, Thasos, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 7 × 2 cm
Description

Intense green massive-crystallized viridine (rare Mn andalusite variety) on matrix plate. Very good and sizable specimen from the locality that produced among the finest specimens of this mineral worldwide.

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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