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Zoisite Var Thulite With Piemontite

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Zoisite Var Thulite With Piemontite

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Description
Locality: 
Leksvik Quarry, Hindremseter, Indre Fosen, Trøndelag, Norway
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 7 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
262.00gr
Description

Solid specimen of pink thulite with white quartz, mostly aggregated as crystalline masses. Across the specimens also a few sprays of elongated red piemontite, very lustrous.
Large and very colorful. Specimens from this locality were sold at the end of the 19th century as lapidary material and usually cut as cabochon.

Former collection Burger (Switzerland). Pre-1950s specimen, labeled in modern times.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Prickler Halt, Ladinger Spitze - Speikkogel area, Saualpe, Carinthia, Austria

Thulite

Variety Of: 

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
pink
Type Locality: 
Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway

Piemontite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Mn3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
Reddish
Type Locality: 
Prabornaz Mine (Praborna Mine), Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy

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