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Sapphire

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Description
Locality: 
Nun's Pass, Carsaig, Isle of Mull, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm
Description

Several blue, sapphire crystals on buchite matrix. Sapphire crystals are rare in the British Isles and this is a good example from this Scottish locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sapphire

Variety Of: 

Corundum

Formula: 
Al2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
9.0
Formula: 
Al2O3
Hardness: 
0.0
Peter Crozier Minerals