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Aragonite With Kutnohorite

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Aragonite With Kutnohorite

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Description
Locality: 
Santa Barbara Mine, Cavriglia, Valdarno, Arezzo Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

A beautiful geode section with amazing needle like crystals of aragonite and brown-grey spheres of kutnohorite. A rarely offered association with nicely contrasting species.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Kutnohorite

Formula: 
Ca(Mn,Mg,Fe)(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Poličany, Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Peter Crozier Minerals