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Loudounite

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Loudounite

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Description
Locality: 
Virginia Trap Rock Quarry, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a world class sample of loudounite from the type locality. There a several small grey clusters of crystals in radial clusters on this matrix with epidote, albite and actinolite. A very rich sample from the original discoverer of the mineral. As good as this mineral gets!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Loudounite

Formula: 
NaCa5Zr4Si16O40(OH)11·8H2O
Strunz: 
9.HF.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
New Goose Creek Quarry (Luck Company Quarry), Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia, USA

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