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Vonsenite

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Vonsenite

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Description
Locality: 
Montenero Quarry, Onano, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

A very cute tuft of unusual, pale-red hair-like, crystals of vonsenite, in the specimen there are, not photographed, brown groups of maghemite and very thin crystals of magnesio-hastingsite. Cute sample.

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What's on the rock

Vonsenite

Formula: 
Fe2+2Fe3+(BO3)O2
Strunz: 
6.AB.30
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Old City Quarry (City Quarry), North Hill, Fairmont Park, Riverside, Riverside Co., California, USA

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