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Diaspore

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Description
Locality: 
Sagåsen Quarry, Mørje, Porsgrunn, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Weight: 
27.00gr
Description

Fine specimen with elongated geodes richly lined by tabular acicular crystals of transparent diaspore f light green colour, and with attractive discontinuous zonations of purple colour. The orange matrix is rich in white acicular natrolite crystals at the base of the cavities.

Collected by J.Sibtsen in 1975-77, while he was living in Norway. Ex JS #1723.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Mramorskii Zavod (Mramorsk Zavod), Kosoi Brod Village, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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