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Hashemite

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Hashemite

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Description
Locality: 
Ma'ale Adumim, Hatrurim Formation, West Bank, Palestinian Territory (occupied)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.9 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some very dark brown, sharp, transparent crystals of hashemite on matrix with bright yellow prisms of Cr-ettringite. This is the actual type locality for hashemite and specimens from here are much more rare. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hashemite

Formula: 
Ba(Cr,S)O4
Strunz: 
7.FA.15
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Lisdan-Siwaga Fault, Hashem region, Amman, Jordan

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