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Magnetite With Epidote

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Magnetite With Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Khogyani, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4.9 × 2.6 cm
Description

Very fine sharp single and twinned magnetite crystals are spread across a face of matrix shared with bright green epidote.

Some contact points to the face where the pocket has pinched.

Really good specimen, magnetite is much rarer than the the other minerals at this locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Magnetite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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