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Viridine

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Description
Locality: 
Trikorfo, Theologos, Thasos, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm
Description

This remote and exhausted locality in Thasos has produced the finest viridnes in the world. This is a representative example with a dark green crystal on contrasting whitish matrix. At least three of the crystal's faces are clearly defined!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Viridine

Variety Of: 

Andalusite

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AF.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Formula: 
(Al,Mn3+)2SiO4O
Hardness: 
0.0

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