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Chrysoberyl

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Chrysoberyl

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Description
Locality: 
Krupskoye, Izumrudnye Kopi, Malyshevo, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.3 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Weight: 
33.00gr
Description

Aggregate of lustrous twinned chrysoberyl crystals of green colour, well exposed off the black matrix of phyllosilicates. They are idiomorph and of net hexagonal habit due to cyclic twining. Some small glassy grey rounded crystals are also present, likely phenakite. 

Ex Kristiaan Huyghe collection. 

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrysoberyl

Formula: 
BeAl2O4
Strunz: 
4.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
8.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brazil

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