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Zoisite Var Thulite

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Zoisite Var Thulite

ex Dr.Wa.Schwartz collection, ex Rost.W.Rowland
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Dos Cabezas, Jacumba Mountains, San Diego County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5.9 × 2 cm
Weight: 
67.00gr
Description

A hat of pinkish thulite, a manganese variety of zoisite on quartz matrix.

The specimen comes with both labels, see under label file.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Prickler Halt, Ladinger Spitze - Speikkogel area, Saualpe, Carinthia, Austria

Thulite

Variety Of: 

Zoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
pink
Type Locality: 
Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway
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