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Quartz With Ripidolite Inclusions

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Quartz With Ripidolite Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Scrava Mine, Statale, Ne, Graveglia Valley, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 9.1 × 6.1 cm
Weight: 
175.00gr
Description

Interesting specimen from Scrava Mine with a lot of quartz crystals showing an aesthetic green phantom due to ripidolite inclusions

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Ripidolite

Variety Of: 

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Formula: 
(Mg,Fe,Al)6(Si,Al)4O10(OH)8
Hardness: 
0.0

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