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Tremolite Stellerite & Quartz

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Tremolite Stellerite & Quartz

Collected by John & Robert Lawson

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Description
Locality: 
Campsie Fells, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 2.6 × 0.7 cm
Weight: 
9.00gr
Description

An unusual specimen of orange/red stellerite crystals coated with chalcedonic quartz and clusters of white feathery tremolite crystals. LC

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Stellerite

Formula: 
Ca4(Si28Al8)O72·28H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Mednyi Island, Commander Islands (Komandorskije ostrova), Bering Sea, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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