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Thorite

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Description
Locality: 
Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.9 × 2.4 cm
Description

specimen with tiny yellow-green crystal of thorite on matrix: very rare to Agua de Pau

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thorite

Formula: 
(Th,U)SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
The Thorite Hole, Løvøya (Løvø; Lövö; Lövöe), Langesundsfjorden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway

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