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Zoisite Var Thulite

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Zoisite Var Thulite

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Description
Locality: 
Søre Lia Quarry, Otta River, Lom, Innlandet, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 8 × 5 cm
Weight: 
480.00gr
Description

Pink thulite impregnated in a gneiss with bands of white quartzite. It is banded with some thin dark red layers and spots of piemontite.

Thulite is the „National Stone of Norway“ and has been used as gemstone and for the manufacturing of gemstone products since many years.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Prickler Halt, Ladinger Spitze - Speikkogel area, Saualpe, Carinthia, Austria

Thulite

Variety Of: 

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
pink
Type Locality: 
Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway

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