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Cordierite

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Cordierite

Historic Specimen
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Brekke, Bamble, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.8 × 0.6 cm
Description

Dark green coloured crystal of cordierite with some quartz matrix; on its accompanying old label of Stockholm Högskole referred to as the now descredited „Bambelit“ (Weibye 1948).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cordierite

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
7.0 - 7.5
Type Locality: 
Großer Arber, Bayerisch Eisenstein, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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