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Zircon

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Description
Locality: 
Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

A text-book tetragonal-dipyramidal zircon that is very rich in crystal faces. Remarkably it is quite transparent and colourless, with some rounded inclusions of black metallic lenticular crystals, probably hematite. It is extremely yellow fluorescent in short ultraviolet light.

Collected by J.Sibtsen in 1975-77. Ex JS #2870.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

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