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Ripidolite

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Description
Locality: 
Klenovec, Rimavská Sobota County, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

Lustrous sheets of micaceous clinochlore var. ripidolite on gneiss matrix. Ripidolite packages populate this matrix specimen, partially covered by oxides, with the main aggregate has crystal size up to 3 mm across.
Unusually seen on the international marked, I got it many years ago from a Slovakian collector.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ripidolite

Variety Of: 

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Formula: 
(Mg,Fe,Al)6(Si,Al)4O10(OH)8
Hardness: 
0.0

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