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Pyrophyllite

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Description
Locality: 
Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm
Description

Although Pyrophyllite was once mined in large deposits in many places in Japan, Pyrophyllite crystals of the quality like this specimen, are to my knowledge unknown from these deposits. This crystals come from an occurrence in the mountains of Yabu city.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrophyllite

Formula: 
Al2(Si4O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.10
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Pyshminskoe deposit (Staro-Pyshminskoye), Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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