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Thorite

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Thorite

ex Americo Urbinati collection

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Description
Locality: 
Vetralla, Vico Lake, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm
Description

an emerald green, prismatic crystal of thorite on sanidine

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thorite

Formula: 
(Th,U)SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
The Thorite Hole, Løvøya (Løvø; Lövö; Lövöe), Langesundsfjorden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway