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Chondrodite

#AH51472

Chondrodite

#AH51472
Availability
Sold
Size
8 x 4.5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet 
Formula
Mg5(SiO4)2F2 (RRUFF)
Locality
Tilly Foster mine, Putnam Co., New York, United States

Deep red vein of Chondrodite to 1.4cm thick in a matrix of Magnetite and clinochlore(?). Collected by Arnold Hampson in 1945, when he was a kid.

Chondrodite

Formula
Mg5(SiO4)2F2 
Crystal System
Monoclinic 
Crystal Habit
Crystalline - Fine, Massive - Granular 
Cleavage
Good, None, None 
Luster
Vitreous - Greasy 
Color
yellow, orange, brownish white, reddish white, greenish white 
Streak
gray 
Class
Monoclinic - Prismatic 
Fracture
Conchoidal 
Hardness
6-6.5 

Data courtesy of Webmineral.

Collection
Arnold G Hampson Collection

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