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Hyalite

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Hyalite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
La Aljorra Quarries, La Aljorra, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm
Weight: 
93.00gr
Description

Very nice specimen of botryodal colorless and white hyalite on lamproite matrix, the particularity that this specimen gives this beauty is that it has the power to acquire fluorescence under the action of short-wave ultraviolet light, as you can see in the last photo. the fluorescence is green.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hyalite

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

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