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Armalcolite

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Description
Locality: 
La Aljorra Quarries, La Aljorra, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

Nice sample of this curious mineral (perfectly developed tabular dark brown crystals) that has its type locality in the Moon !!. The name is from ARMstrong, ALdrin and COLlins the first men who traveled to the moon in 1969 . More precisely, the mineral belongs to the armalcolite-pseudobrookite series. Associated minerals in the sample are enstatite in light brown crystals, trydimite and fluorphlogopite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Armalcolite

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5
Strunz: 
4.CB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Tranquillity Base (Apollo 11 landing site), Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility), The Moon

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