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Sapphire

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Description
Locality: 
Naxos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.9 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.80cm
Description

This is an extremely rare example of Greek, crystallized sapphire. Specimens with well formed crystals have never been seen from Greece again and this one comes from a big old specimen that had these crystals in matrix. I had the luck of acquiring the specimen and started preparing it. A lot of work is required to reveal the crystals though and the number of pieces is limited. This is a representative example with crystals to 1.8cm!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sapphire

Variety Of: 

Corundum

Formula: 
Al2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
9.0
Formula: 
Al2O3
Hardness: 
0.0

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