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Ferro-fluoro-edenite & Vonsenite

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Ferro-fluoro-edenite & Vonsenite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.1 × 1 cm
Description

specimen with some very good black striated prismatic crystals of ferro-fluoro-edenitevwith black needles of vonsenite on matrix.

c. 4565

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ferro-fluoro-edenite

Formula: 
NaCa2Fe2+5(AlSi7O22)F2
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Type Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

Vonsenite

Formula: 
Fe2+2Fe3+(BO3)O2
Strunz: 
6.AB.30
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Old City Quarry (City Quarry), North Hill, Fairmont Park, Riverside, Riverside Co., California, USA

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