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Opal-CT Var Lussatite

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Opal-CT Var 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: 
2.5 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm
Description

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

This is the second and last of these specimens recently recovered from collection of Paul Vandevelde.

From a recent find of ~2015-2016.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Opal-CT

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Hardness: 
0.0

Lussatite

Renamed To: 

Opal-CT

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

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