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Chloritoid

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Chloritoid

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Description
Locality: 
Ottré, Vielsalm, Luxembourg Province, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 2.9 × 1.4 cm
Weight: 
31.00gr
Description

Rich specimen with black, high lustrous crystals in ordovician schist. Early the chloritoid was often labeled with ottrelite. New analysis by order of mr. michel blondieau, a belgian collector, was identified the propotion of manganse to magnesium content.

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What's on the rock

Chloritoid

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mg,Mn2+)Al2(SiO4)O(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.85
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
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