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Bazzite

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Bazzite

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Description
Locality: 
Fibbia, Fontana, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 4.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

A dozen of prismatic, pale sky blue bazzite crystals from the famous Gothard alpine fissures.

Very good and extremely hard to get old time specimen with more than a dozen bazzite crystals on beautifl and sharp adularia crystals with iron rose crystals.

Ex Hoffmann collection - acquired in the 1970s

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bazzite

Formula: 
Be3Sc2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy