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Fluoro-edenite

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Fluoro-edenite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Calvario, Biancavilla, Etna, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4 × 1.5 cm
Description

Very rich specimen of the brand new yellow mineral fluoro-edenite all over the matrix. Fluoro-edenite showes two different types of crystals on this specimen.With black lustrous hematite and pseudobrookite crystals.

Very beautiful under the microscope

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluoro-edenite

Formula: 
{Na}{Ca2}{Mg5}(AlSi7O22)(F,OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Calvario, Biancavilla, Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy