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Prase Quartz On Hedenbergite

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Prase Quartz On Hedenbergite

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Description
Locality: 
Mega Horio, Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Prase crystals forming a very attractive cluster on a bed of hedenbergite (also, as inclusions in the quartz, responsible for the green color). Minor dings at the sides. The stains on the crystal tips might be manganese oxides.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Prase

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Hedenbergite

Formula: 
CaFe2+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Mormorsgruvan, Tunaberg Cu-Co Ore Field, Tunaberg, Nyköping, Södermanland, Sweden

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