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Analcime

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Description
Locality: 
Quiraing, Staffin, Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 9 × 7.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Description

This is an old-time specimen of large, gleaming, sharp crystals of analcime, measuring to 3 cm across. They are sitting nicely in a vug of the matrix.

Exquisite specimen from Wolfgang Schneider collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Analcime

Formula: 
Na2(Al2Si4O12)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cyclopean Islands, Acitrezza (Aci Trezza), Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy