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Magnetite On Melanite

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Magnetite On Melanite

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Description
Locality: 
Berggießhübel, Bad Gottleuba, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

On a matrix of massive magnetite and garnet var Melanite perches a metallg grey sharp crystals of magnetite. Absolutely rare from that well known skarn deposit in the eastern Erzgebirge.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Magnetite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black

Melanite

Variety Of: 

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Black

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110