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Diopside & Microcline

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Diopside & Microcline

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Description
Locality: 
Crystal Mountain, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Dark green diopside crystals to 1.4cm, combine with white microcline crystals to form a pretty thumbnail specimen. Collected in the 1990's from a lesser known Queensland deposit.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

Microcline

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic - Pinacoidal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway
Earthstones Australia

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