Magnesite with Quartz
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Magnesite with Quartz
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 7 x 5 x 5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Formula
- MgCO3 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Traversella mine, Canavese dist., Torino, Piedmont, Italy
- Tagged
- carbonate
Nice specimen for the Daily Five!! I couldn't resist though. The specimen has Magnesite to over 1.5cm and sprays of waterclear Quartz to 1cm. Nice arrangement with matching label numbers to specimen. Excellent specimen.
Magnesite
- Formula
- MgCO3
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Granular, Earthy, Massive - Fibrous
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Perfect, Perfect
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- colorless, white, grayish white, yellowish white, brownish white
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
- Fracture
- Brittle - Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 4
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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