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Spinel with Phlogopite from Mogok District, 115 km NNE of Mandalay, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma)

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 78890
Mineral:	Spinel with Phlogopite
Locality:	Mogok District, 115 km NNE of Mandalay, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma)
Description:	Many lustrous transparent red octahedral spinel crystals to 2 mm intermixed with translucent brown phlogopite mica crystals to 1.5 mm covering two sides of translucent gray quartz. The spinel crystals fluoresce red under LW-SW UV illumination
Overall Size:	18x17x9 mm
Crystals:	0.2-2.0 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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