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Cavansite

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Cavansite

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Description
Locality: 
Owyhee Dam, Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur County, Oregon, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small but extremely rich sample of cavansite from the type locality! There are hundreds and hundreds of needles of cavansite in radial clusters with colorless crystals of clinoptilolite. Cavansite from Owyhee Dam is very rare in this quality. 

Mineral Data
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Cavansite

Formula: 
Ca(VO)Si4O10·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Owyhee Dam, Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur Co., Oregon, USA

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