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Uvarovite

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Uvarovite

Dan Behnke collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Jacksonville, Toulumne County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.6 cm
Description

ILLUSTRATED!! You are bidding on a small sample with some very nice dodecahedra of uvarovite on matrix from this hard to find Californian locality for the mineral. Illustrated in Rocks and Minerals 1/93, pg26 and in Photo Atlas of Minerals 2007. Comes with Dan's 6 original slides and index card.

 This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uvarovite

Formula: 
Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya Village (Sarany), Gornozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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