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Lussatite

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Description
Locality: 
Puy du Mur Quarry, Mur-sur-Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2 × 1.6 cm
Description

A good example of terrestrial nail “helix ramondi”, replaced by light blue opal-CT, historically known as “lussatite”.

Exchanged in 2017 by Paul Vandevelde, it is from a recent found (~2015-2016).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lussatite

Renamed To: 

Opal-CT

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Lussat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France

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