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Phenakite With Tourmaline

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Phenakite With Tourmaline

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Description
Locality: 
Anjanabonoina, Ambohimanambola, Betafo, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Gemmy bright, water clear crystals of phenakite, up to 5 mm, some doubly-terminated that are well exposed all-around on a matrix of brown-black tourmaline with some transparent terminations.

Ex Francis Hubert #430.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phenakite

Formula: 
Be2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Type Locality: 
Izumrudnye Kopi area, Malyshevo, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

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