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Product Code: RRC-OLIV
Our specimen pieces range roughly between 30-500gm.
Olivine is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that are typically found in mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks such as basalt, gabbro, dunite, diabase, and peridotite. They are usually green in colour and have compositions that typically range between Mg2SiO4 and Fe2SiO4. Many people are familiar with olivine because it is the mineral of a very popular green gemstone known as peridot.
Olivine receives its name from its usual olive-green colour. Many geology students remember the colour of olivine by using a rhyme: "olivine is gr ...
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Our specimen pieces range roughly between 30-500gm.
Olivine is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that are typically found in mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks such as basalt, gabbro, dunite, diabase, and peridotite. They are usually green in colour and have compositions that typically range between Mg2SiO4 and Fe2SiO4. Many people are familiar with olivine because it is the mineral of a very popular green gemstone known as peridot.
Olivine receives its name from its usual olive-green colour. Many geology students remember the colour of olivine by using a rhyme: "olivine is green." That rhyme is true with most classroom specimens; however, there are rare iron-rich olivines (fayalites) that are brownish in colour.
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