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Forsterite Var Peridot

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Forsterite Var Peridot

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Description
Locality: 
Sapat Gali, Naran, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.6 × 2.8 cm
Description

This is a very good example of some of the finest Peridot crystals in the world. No world locality has produced the quality and quantity of euhedral Peridot crystals like Sapat.

This specimen is a very attractive, relatively sharp, gemmy, lime green color crystals on matrix.

A beauty of a thumbnail of this great material

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Forsterite

Formula: 
Mg2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Peridot

Variety Of: 

Forsterite

Formula: 
Mg2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AC.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
0.0