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Parascandolaite & Elpasolite

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Parascandolaite & Elpasolite

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Description
Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.4 × 0.9 cm
Description

specimen with many colourless tiny cubic crystals of the extremely rare parascandolaite on matrix from the type locality, associate tiny hoctaedric colourless crystal of elpasolite.

c. 2787

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Parascandolaite

Formula: 
KMgF3
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Elpasolite

Formula: 
NaK2[AlF6]
Strunz: 
3.CB.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
St Peters Dome, Cheyenne District (St. Peters Dome District), El Paso Co., Colorado, USA

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