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Dravite

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Dravite

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Description
Locality: 
Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm
Description

A fine, double terminated, brown Dravite from Yinnietharra. The locality is well known and dravite from this place is in a typical phlogopite-plagioclase schist. Semitransparent, prismatic hexagonal crystal with rhombohedral terminations.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dravite

Formula: 
Na(Mg3)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Dobrova, Dravograd (Unterdrauburg), Slovenia