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Forsterite

Ex-David J. Eicher Collection; ex-John H. Eicher Collection

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Description
Locality: 
North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm
Description

Microcrystals of forsterite (“olivine”) from an unusual American locality, said to be from Haywood County, but that locality is not listed in Mindat as a source for forsterite. Reliably from North Carolina. Old material collected in the 1940s.

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
David J. Eicher

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