Brucite (2015 find)

Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Small Cabinet, 5.3 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Start Time: 04/30/2017 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/04/2017 6:39:02 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Beautiful, glassy, shimmering, translucent, intergrown, bladed yellow-green brucite botryoids aesthetically cover the matrix plate on this showy and colorful example from a small 2015 find in the Kharan District of Pakistan. Brucite, Mg-hydroxide, is found in found in metamorphic rocks and metasediments, in marbles and magnesian skarns. It is very uncommon from Pakistan. A fine example of the find and locale.

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