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Bavenite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Venero I Quarry, Cadalso de los Vidrios, Madrid, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
16 × 14 × 8 cm
Description

Very beautiful and very large spheroidal aggregates of divergent sharp bavenite crystals very rich all over beautiful crystallized albite crystals.

Extremely good and rare specimen from an older collection with up to 8 mm (!) bright and well crystallized bavenite crystal groups.

Very good display specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bavenite

Formula: 
Ca4Be2Al2Si9O26(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DF.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy