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Melilite & Nepheline

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Melilite & Nepheline

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Description
Locality: 
Löhley, Üdersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2 × 1.2 cm
Description

specimen with many beautiful orange crystals of melilite with associate exagonal prismatic crystals of nepheline on matrix.

c. 3061

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melilite

Group Parent: 
Melilite Group

Nepheline

Formula: 
(Na,K)AlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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