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Ternesite

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Description
Locality: 
Lapanouse-de-Sévérac, Aveyron, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm
Description

specimen with some nice dark apple green aggregates of the uncommon ternesite in matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ternesite

Formula: 
Ca5(SiO4)2(SO4)
Strunz: 
9.AH.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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