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Magnesio-hastingsite

German Antarctica expedition GANOVEX III 1982/83

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Description
Locality: 
Apostrophe Island, Spatulate Ridge, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

A crystal cleavage of black-green magnesio-hastingsite.

Recent analyses (by Joy Desor) confirmed this old material as magnesio-hastingsite.

The specimen was found during the third German Antarctica expedition

GANOVEX III 1982/83

Magnesio-hastingsite from this locality is seldom available.

Ex collection Dipl.Min. Ulrich Vetter, Hannover - mineralogist of this expedition.

Comes with a - copy - of his old original handwritten "Hornblende" label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Magnesio-hastingsite

Formula: 
NaCa2(Mg4Fe3+)Si6Al2O22(OH)2
Group Parent: 
Hastingsite Root Name
Strunz: 
8/F.10-130
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5 - 6
Colour: 
Green to brownish-green
Type Locality: 
Canadian National Railway tunnel, Mont Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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