Chondrodite
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Chondrodite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 6 x 4.5 x 1 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Formula
- Mg5(SiO4)2F2 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Tilly Foster mine, Putnam Co., New York, United States
This is a relatively large, deep orange Chondrodite showing some crystal faces but nothing complete. Specimens such as these are hard to obtain from this locality.
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
- Phillips Collection
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