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Thortveitite

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Thortveitite

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Description
Locality: 
Varenche Mine, Saint-Barthélemy, Nus, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.8 × 2.7 cm
Description

specimen with two very good blue crystalline aggregates of thortveitite on matrix.

c. 3251

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thortveitite

Formula: 
(Sc,Y)2Si2O7
Strunz: 
9.BC.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Ljoslandsknipan (Thortveitittgruva), Knipan (Knipane), Ljosland, Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway

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