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Chromite

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Chromite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
(Urals), Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Description

Grey-black grains of cromite in matrix from the Ural Mountains in Russia.

Very interesting old specimen with beautiful old and handwritten label from the famous Freiberg museum, Saxony, Germany.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chromite

Formula: 
Fe2+Cr3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Bastide de la Carrade, Gassin, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...