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Chondrodite with unknown

#64617

Chondrodite with unknown

#64617
Availability
Sold
Size
5 x 5 x 3.5 cm - Miniature 
Formula
Mg5(SiO4)2F2 (RRUFF)
Locality
Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, United States

Orange crystal grains of Chondrodite to 2mm in Calcite with a strange looking faint blue, glassy, and bulbous crystals as seen at the arrows. I have no idea what the unknown is.....

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 

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