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Wollastonite With Quartz

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Wollastonite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.00cm
Description

Nice white wollastonite crystal on matrix with tiny transparent quartz crystals and an unknown black mineral (probably iron oxide).
An unusual specimen for the locality as wollastonite
is found embeded in rock and not as a cavity crystal.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wollastonite

Formula: 
CaSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DG.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White

Quartz

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

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