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Clinochlore

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Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Campolungo Pass, Campolungo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 8.8 × 4 cm
Description

Lustrous, deep green to black clinochlore crystals up to 1 cm in diameter.

With brownyellow titanite crystals.

Collected in 1967

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
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