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Stokesite & Andradite

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Stokesite & Andradite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
El Hammam Mine, Ait Mimoune Caïdat, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 0.9 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with crystallized green andradite and several spheres of sharp, colorless stokesite crystals and 'varlamoffite'. Rare locality for this mineral!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stokesite

Formula: 
CaSn[Si3O9]·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.DM.05
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Stamps and Jowl Zawn (Roscommon Cliff), Cliff outcrops, Botallack, St Just, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway

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