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Pyrophyllite

ex. Collection Dr. Winfried Böhmer (Wunstorf/Germany)

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Description
Locality: 
Snow Camp Mine, Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 6.2 × 4.5 cm
Description

Pyrophyllite crystals in matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrophyllite

Formula: 
Al2(Si4O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.10
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Pyshminskoe deposit (Staro-Pyshminskoye), Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...