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Derbylite

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Derbylite

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Description
Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a large vug hosting very rich clusters of twinned derbylite crystals on dolomite with minor anatase crystals. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Derbylite

Formula: 
Fe3+4Ti3Sb3+O13(OH)
Strunz: 
4.JB.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Tripuí (Tripuhy), Main district, Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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