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Kyanite

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Kyanite

include older label
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Description
Locality: 
Kovdor Phlogopite Mine, Kovdor Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 7 × 3.9 cm
Weight: 
211.00gr
Description

Few blue cyanite crystals on quartz matrix together with phologpite, many part, and few garnet inclusions. The specimen comes with an older label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kyanite

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AF.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic Forms long bladed crystals.
Hardness: 
5.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
Colorless