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Uvite On Magnesite

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Uvite On Magnesite

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Description
Locality: 
Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm
Description

This contrastful specimen features numerous of transparent, multifaced, reddish-brown crystals of uvite on rhombs of magnesite. The magnesite is partly transparent as well, razor sharp and highly lustrous. The well defined uvite crystals are mostly excellent terminated and also undamaged. Just in the periphery you can see minor imperfection. A super specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uvite

Formula: 
Ca(Mg3)MgAl5(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(F/OH)
Group Parent: 
Tourmaline
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Colour: 
Black, greenish-black
Streak: 
Light-brown, light-green, or white

Magnesite

Formula: 
MgCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Magnisía Prefecture (Magnesia), Thessalia Department (Thessaly), Greece
Wendel Minerals

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