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Bavenite

Ron Waddell collection
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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with at least three nice clusters of bavenite plates with pectolite and riebeckite from the Ron Waddell collection. Bavenite is extremely rare at MSH and highly sought after by serious collectors of the minerals found here. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bavenite

Formula: 
Ca4Be2Al2Si9O26(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DF.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

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