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Babingtonite

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Description
Locality: 
Bråstad Iron Mines, Øyestad, Arendal, Agder, Norway
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

This specimen consists of a dark green amphibole rock with basically three vugs filled with dozens of black, mostly high lustrous euhedral babingtonite crystals up to 3 mm in size.

A very rich specimen from the type locality of this mineral, the old, now abondoned, skarn-iron ore deposits at Arendal.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Babingtonite

Formula: 
Ca2(Fe,Mn)FeSi5O14(OH)
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

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