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Californite

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Description
Locality: 
El Dorado County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

A very nice green single crystal of californite from California.

Californite is a local term for a dark-green to grass-green compact massive jade-looking rock consisting essentially of vesuvianite.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Californite

Variety Of: 

Vesuvianite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,☐)19(Al,Mg,Fe3+)13(☐,B,Al,Fe3+)5(Si2O7)4(SiO4)10(OH,F,O)10
Strunz: 
9.BG.35
Hardness: 
6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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