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Benitoite & Eudialyte

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Benitoite & Eudialyte

Henry Delinde collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Diamond Jo Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.3 × 3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a vug in syenite host to one perfect, and several other smaller, light pink, hexagonal tabular crystals of benitoite with a few small patches of brighter pink eudialyte group crystals. This was a very limited and rare find made by Henry Delinde and this is my last high quality sample from his collection! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Benitoite

Formula: 
BaTi(Si3O9)
Strunz: 
9.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
California State Gem Mine (Dallas Gem Mine; Benitoite Mine; Benitoite Gem Mine; Gem Mine), Dallas Gem Mine area, San Benito River headwaters area, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Eudialyte

Formula: 
Na15Ca6(Fe2+,Mn2+)3Zr3[Si25O73](O,OH,H2O)3(OH,Cl)2
Strunz: 
9.CO.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Kangerluarsuk Fjord (Kangerdluarssuq Fjord), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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