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Uralite With Andradite & Tremolite

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Uralite With Andradite & Tremolite

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Description
Locality: 
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 5 × 3 cm
Description

A specimen very rich in deep green actinolite crystals that form "uralite" (a psevdomorph mainly of tremolite after a pyroxene group mineral) together with light brown semi transparent andradite crystals.Quartz crystals are also present.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uralite

Variety Of: 

Amphibole Supergroup

Formula: 
AX2Z5((Si,Al,Ti)8O22)(OH,F,Cl,O)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway

Tremolite

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland

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