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Chromite

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Chromite

Ex University of Amsterdam
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

A good sample of chromite from a very uncommon locality with a rich coverage of lustrous black rounded crystals and grains of chromite on matrix. Also included is a glastube, 8 cm, filled with chromite grains.

Collected by Dutch geologists in the early 1950's. Ex Geological Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

 

Collected: 
1950's
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chromite

Formula: 
Fe2+Cr3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Bastide de la Carrade, Gassin, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...
Provenance
Cartils Minerals

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