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Tilasite & Clinochlore

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Tilasite & Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Cervandone Area, Devero Alp, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 1.9 cm
Description

some pink, trasparent crystals of tilasite on adularia with green rounded crystals of clinochlore

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tilasite

Formula: 
CaMg(AsO4)F
Strunz: 
8.BH.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Brinton's Quarry, West Chester, Westtown Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA...