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  • spinel

    … (zinc aluminum oxide, ZnAl2O4), and galaxite (manganese aluminum oxide, MnAl2O4). The colour of magnesia spinel ranges from bloodred to blue, green, brown, and colourless; gahnite is dark blue-green; hercynite and galaxite are black. These minerals are found as glassy, hard octahedrons, grains or masses in basic igneous rocks, granite pegmatites,…

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    … (zinc aluminum oxide, ZnAl2O4), and galaxite (manganese aluminum oxide, MnAl2O4). The colour of magnesia spinel ranges from bloodred to blue, green, brown, and colourless; gahnite is dark blue-green; hercynite and galaxite are black. These minerals are found as glassy, hard octahedrons, grains or masses in basic igneous rocks, granite pegmatites,…

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