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Baddeleyite & Davyne

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Baddeleyite & Davyne

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Description
Locality: 
San Vito Quarry, Ercolano, Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

specimen with some beautiful yellow-violet tabular crystals of baddeleyite with associate good white prisms of davyna

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baddeleyite

Formula: 
ZrO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Kollonnagam, Rakwana, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka

Davyne

Formula: 
(Na,K)6Ca2(Al6Si6O24)(Cl2,SO4)2
Strunz: 
9.FB.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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