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Chrysotile

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Description
Locality: 
Canari Mine, Cap Corse, Bastia, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.4 × 4.8 × 3.6 cm
Description

White fibrous crystals of chrysotile-lizardite with a good satin lustre in a serpentinite rock.

Acquired in 1983. Ex. Dr. Bob Janssens collection, #1696.

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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