Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Clintonite

Views:
Watches:
CR28706

Clintonite

With Antique Label

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Zlatoust District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Description

Very interesting old specimen of clintonite (xanthophyllite).

Ex Magyar Nemzeti Museum, obtained 1938

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clintonite

Formula: 
Ca(Mg,Al)3(Al3SiO10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.35
Hardness: 
3.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Clintonite type locality, Amity, Town of Warwick, Orange Co., New York, USA