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Beryl

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Description
Locality: 
Ponte de Lajedão, Catuji, Mucuri Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 4 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Description

colorless long prismatic well terminated crystals of 3 cm with some brownish muscovite on white albite matrix. Nice specimens from a rare location

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Beryl

Formula: 
Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Streak: 
White