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Amosite

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Description
Locality: 
Penge Mine, Sekhukhune, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 1 × 0.4 cm
Description

Long greenish-grey fibrous crystals of grunerite of the amosite variety, from the Penge mine (South Africa).

Acquired in the 1960’s by Gilbert Gauthier in a collecting trip to South Africa. Ex René Virlet specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amosite

Variety Of: 

Grunerite

Formula: 
☐{Fe2+2}{Fe2+5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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