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Actinolite

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Description
Locality: 
Zillertal, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.8 × 8.3 × 5.1 cm
Description

This specimen has two display sides. On the one hand there are more isolated, well defined and highly lustrous crystals embedded in and also perchedon on shist matrix. They are dark olive green and lucent as well. On the other hand there is a  more radial aggregat of brighter olive green crystals, easy to see in the picture. In any way this is a typical specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Actinolite

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
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