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Menilite

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Locality: 
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 5.6 × 3.1 cm
Weight: 
53.00gr
Description

Nice botryoidal nodule of opaline menilite from Paris, probably from Ménilmontant area, the first recorded locality that gives the name also to this kind of opaline concretions. It comes with an old original label from “Les Fils D’Emile Deyrolle that dates back before 1937 (Wilson, W.E (2022): “Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive at Mineralogical Record”). Ex Ennio Contarini, #424.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Menilite

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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