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Zunyite & Pyrophyllite

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Zunyite & Pyrophyllite

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Description
Locality: 
Chouichiat, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 5.4 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

This is a selfcollected specimen from the Chouichiat deposit (Bou Azer district, Morocco) on September 3, 2015. They are grey angular crystals, partially rounded by metamorphism, imbibed in a pyrophyllite-rich matrix. Only a handful of these specimens were recovered.

A complete study can be found in: Berrada et al. (2009), Canadian Mineralogist 47, 2, 441-456.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zunyite

Formula: 
Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl
Strunz: 
9.BJ.55
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zuni Mine (Zuñi Mine), Anvil Mountain, Red Mountain District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA

Pyrophyllite

Formula: 
Al2(Si4O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.10
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Pyshminskoe deposit (Staro-Pyshminskoye), Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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