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Chrome-Tremolite

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Chrome-Tremolite

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Description
Locality: 
Campolungo Pass, Campolungo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.6 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.00cm
Description

A very nice green tremolite crystal (chrome-tremolite in this case) on a sandy, sugar-like dolomite matrix.

It's very hard to find a green tremolite like this on matrix.

Type locality of tremolite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrome-Tremolite

Variety Of: 

Tremolite

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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