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| Title | Magnesite, Negropont Island, Greece |
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| Description | This sample of magnesite, MgCO3, is from Negropont Island, Greece, and is about 7 cm across. Scratches on the surface are the results of students doing scratch tests to determine hardness. This is a typical sample of magnesite: massive and fine grained. Large individual crystals are rare becuase magnesite typically forms by low-grade metamorphism or alteration of magnesium-rich rocks. |
| Location | Greece. Negropont Island. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2001-06-26. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #714. |
| Key words | Greece, magnesite |
| Tech details | 457 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera, 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 887 |
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