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Ruby In Zoisite

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Ruby In Zoisite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Mundarara Mine, Longido District, Arusha Region, Tanzania (United Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.1 × 15 × 1.2 cm
Weight: 
456.00gr
Description

Superb museum quality specimen featuring deep-red, well defined hexagonal crystals of corundum of the variety ruby, in a matrix of green zoisite, with net concentric growing zones. The slice has two cut unpolished sides.

Very fluorescent in red under long UV.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ruby

Variety Of: 

Corundum

Formula: 
Al2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
9.0
Formula: 
Al2O3
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
9.0
Colour: 
Red

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Prickler Halt, Ladinger Spitze - Speikkogel area, Saualpe, Carinthia, Austria

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