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Phenakite

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Phenakite

Ex Dr. Krantz collection, Bonn, Germany
Gem Crystal

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Description
Locality: 
Rio Piracicaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 2.3 × 1.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.30cm
Description

Single Phenakite crystal, colourless, mostly waterclear and gemmy.
Only one tip is fully crystallized, the opposite one has a big contact plane. Nevertheless one of the biggest gemmy ones!
Weighs 7.3 grams.
Very rare material from old finds (before 1950).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phenakite

Formula: 
Be2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Type Locality: 
Izumrudnye Kopi area, Malyshevo, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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