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Giorgiosite

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Giorgiosite

David Burgess Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Nea Kammeni Island, Santorini Island, Thira, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with rich white encrustations and silky growths of rare giorgiosite with sparse melanophologite from the type locality. David Burgess collection. 

Mineral Data
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Giorgiosite

Formula: 
Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2 · 5-6H2O
Strunz: 
5/E.01-30
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Alphoessa lava flow, Nea Kammeni Island, Cyclade Islands, Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands Department, Greece

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