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Clinozoisite

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Clinozoisite

ex Domenico Forloni collection

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Description
Locality: 
Pianasca Quarry, Villadossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.1 × 2.1 cm
Description

several groups of elongated crystals of yellow clinozoisite on adularia with muscovite and chlorite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clinozoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Gösleswand (Goslerwand), Prägraten, Virgen Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria