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Idocrase

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Idocrase

From an old collection of a doctor in chemistry from 1900-1930
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Description
Locality: 
Webster Prospects, Sanford, York County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 8.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Vesuvianite, Idokras crystals in massive vesuvianite.

Profesor John W. Webster of Harvard University operated this quarry for specimens and described vesuvianite from this locality in an article in American Journal of Science in 1848. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Idocrase

Renamed To: 

Vesuvianite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,☐)19(Al,Mg,Fe3+)13(☐,B,Al,Fe3+)5(Si2O7)4(SiO4)10(OH,F,O)10
Strunz: 
9.BG.35
Hardness: 
6.5

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