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Chrysotile

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Chrysotile

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Description
Locality: 
Globe, Globe-Miami District, Gila County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.8 × 2.3 cm
Description

White fibrous crystals of chrysotile with a good satin lustre, filling up parallel fractures of a white metamorphic rock. Classic material from the Gila county.

Acquired 1976 by Eudore Toussant.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrysotile

Formula: 
Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Zloty Stok (Reichenstein), Ząbkowice District, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

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