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Ellingsenite & Sazhinite

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Ellingsenite & Sazhinite

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Description
Locality: 
Aris Quarry, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3 × 1 cm
Description

A spherical cluster of colourless ellingsenite crystals associated with a prismatic white sazhinite crystal and greenish brown acicular tuperssuatsiaite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ellingsenite

Formula: 
Na5Ca6Si18O38(OH)13·6H2O
Hardness: 
4.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Aris Quarries (Ariskop Quarry; Railway Quarry), Aris, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia

Sazhinite

Synonym Of: 

Sazhinite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Na3Ce[Si6O15]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.30
Hardness: 
2.5

Sazhinite-(La)

Formula: 
Na3La[Si6O15]·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.30
Hardness: 
3.0
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