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Diaspore

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Diaspore

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Description
Locality: 
Tuften, Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 6 × 4.7 cm
Description

Big size specimen with elongated geodes richly lined by acicular crystals of purple-pink diaspore and white natrolite.

Collected by J.Sibtsen in 1975-77. Ex Jan Sibtsen #1722.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Mramorskii Zavod (Mramorsk Zavod), Kosoi Brod Village, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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