Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Clinozoisite & Datolite

Views:
Watches:
TPX824511

Clinozoisite & Datolite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Los Serranos Quarry, Albatera, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 3.1 × 1.1 cm
Weight: 
34.00gr
Description

Very nice group of green clinozoisite and datolite crystals in the form of fans on a porphyric matrix from this classic Spanish site today closed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clinozoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Gösleswand (Goslerwand), Prägraten, Virgen Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

Datolite

Formula: 
Ca(HBSiO5)
Strunz: 
9.AJ.20
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Nødebro Mine (Nøddebro), Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps