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Ilvaite

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Sheaf of fine, very shiny black crystals sprinkled with perfect, greenish quartz crystals that seem to be pseudomorphed after the beta variety (2.7 cm maximum).

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Species
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Added on11/10/2024
Locality
Russia, Primorsky Krai, Verkhnii Mine

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Mineral guide
Learn about Ilvaite
black sorosilicate with sharp, glossy prisms and metallic sheen; forms in iron-rich skarns with quartz and calcite; Elba, Dalnegorsk.
Regional guide
Ilvaite from Verkhnii Mine
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