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Spinel With Pyrite

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Spinel With Pyrite

Ruby Spinel

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Description
Locality: 
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 6 × 2.5 cm
Description

 A superb gemmy clean pigeon blood well terminated ruby spinel crystalhosts to pyrite mixed matrix , minor etching can be seen to spinel crystal.

A very nice captivating spinel specimen from the locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spinel

Formula: 
MgAl2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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