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Pennantite

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Pennantite

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Description
Locality: 
Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Genova, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Pennantite is a not too common mineral of the "Chlorite Group", which forms solid solution series with clinochlore and chamosite.

Thick lamellar crystals of pennantite with rock crystal. A good specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pennantite

Formula: 
Mn2+5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Benallt Mine (Tyddyn Meirion mine; Ty Canol mine), Rhiw, Llanfaelrhys, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

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