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Magnetite

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Description
Locality: 
El Laco, San Pedro de Atacama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Sharp lustrous magnetite crystals on a matrix of lava and massive magnetite.

Seldom offered material from this very unusual locality of ironoxide orebodies formed in a lava flow.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Magnetite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black

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