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Pargasite

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Pargasite

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Description
Locality: 
Yuang Yang, Wenshan County, Wenshan, Yunnan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm
Description

Bright green pargasite (initially described as fluoro-cannilloite) from the Yuang Yang, Yunnan, China. 

Rare mineral. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pargasite

Formula: 
{Na}{Ca2}{Mg4Al}(Al2Si6O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Pargas (Parainen), Southwestern Finland Region, Finland