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Diaspore

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Diaspore

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Description
Locality: 
Saga #1 Quarry, Sagåsen, Mørje, Porsgrunn, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.7 × 7.3 × 3.4 cm
Weight: 
325.00gr
Description

An approx. 4 cm as well as a 2 cm cavity are filled with plenty of yellow/greenish coloured diaspore crystals together with radiating natrolite crystals. The host rock is „Spreustein“ a typical rock type from the pegmatites of the Langesundsfjord- and Larvikite-area in Southern Norway that is consisting predominantly of natrolite. Very rich specimen. Found in 1984.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Mramorskii Zavod (Mramorsk Zavod), Kosoi Brod Village, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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