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Hydrotalcite With Lizardite & Hematite

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Hydrotalcite With Lizardite & Hematite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Snarum, Modum, Viken, Norway
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 6.5 × 5 cm
Weight: 
214.00gr
Description

Specimen consisting of pearly white masses of hydrotalcite, yellowish green masses of serpentine group mineral (lizardite) and dark grey hematite.
From the type locality of hydrotalcite "Dypingdal Serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway".

Comes with weathered, hand-written antique label in french language.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydrotalcite

Formula: 
Mg6Al2(OH)16[CO3]·4H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.50
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dypingdal Serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway

Lizardite

Formula: 
Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Eastern Cliff, Kennack Cove (Kennack Sands), Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, UK

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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