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Annite Albite & Spessartine

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Annite Albite & Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.4 × 10.1 × 2.6 cm
Description

A large plate of greenish black annite crystals interspersed with glassy albite crystals, the matrix is white feldspar studded with gemmy pink spessartine crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Annite

Formula: 
KFe2+3(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Rockport, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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