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Baddeleyite & Pyrochlore

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Baddeleyite & Pyrochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cavalluccio, Sacrofano, Rome Province, Lazio, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a very nice, transparent, sharp baddeleyite crystal in a vug with some iridescent pyrochlore octahedra attached. Former Roberto Allori and William Henderson collections. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baddeleyite

Formula: 
ZrO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Kollonnagam, Rakwana, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka

Pyrochlore

Synonym Of: 

Pyrochlore Group

Formula: 
A2Nb2(O,OH)6Z
Strunz: 
4
Hardness: 
5 - 5.5
Group Parent: 
Pyrochlore Group

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