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Margarite

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Margarite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Chester Emery Mines, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.8 × 2 cm
Description

Foliated crystals of lilac-colored margarite in green-black actinolite schist. See article: The Chester Emery Mines in Min. Rec., July-Aug. 1978.

With beautiful old label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Margarite

Formula: 
CaAl2(Al2Si2O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.30
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Großer Greiner, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria