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Prosopite

Ex coll. Manfred Schaeffer, Detmold

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Description
Locality: 
Ivigtut, Ivittuut, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 2.3 cm
Description

Cavities in massive grey-white prosopite lined with plenty of minute colorless prosopite crystals.

Very good and rich old-time specimen from this locality.

Ex collection Dipl. Min. Manfred Schaeffer,Detmold

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Prosopite

Formula: 
CaAl2(F,OH)8
Strunz: 
3.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Tin mine, Altenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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