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Diaspore Var Mangan-diaspore

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Diaspore Var Mangan-diaspore

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Description
Locality: 
Glosam Mine, Postmasburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 6.2 × 5 cm
Weight: 
106.00gr
Description

An attractive mangan-diaspore specimen with pink-red boxy and platy crystals. The diaspore crystals have a lustous deep brown-red colour and they sit on a manganese matrix. Mangan-diaspore is a rare mineral and this type of quality specimen is only found in the Kalahari Manganese Fields. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Mramorskii Zavod (Mramorsk Zavod), Kosoi Brod Village, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Mangan-diaspore

Variety Of: 

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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Insurance will be taken out only if it is the buyer's expressed wish. 

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