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Goethite Psm Pyrite With Titanite

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Goethite Psm Pyrite With Titanite

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Ospedalaccio Pass, Sassalbo, Massa-Carrara Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 4 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
41.00gr
Description

Peculiar miniature consisting of Fe-oxides throughly pseudomorphing two pentagonododecahedrons of pyrite on an albite-bearing amphibolite matrix. Associated, some minor titanite crystals of good shape and lustre.

From where only a handful of pretty specimens were retrieved. This is definitely one of them!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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