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Goosecreekite

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Goosecreekite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 5.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Goosecreekite is an ultra-rare zeolite and this very showy Nasik combination specimen has a nice cluster of discrete, snow-white goosecreekite crystals on sparkly quartz-covered basalt matrix.

Very beautiful and pristine specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goosecreekite

Formula: 
Ca[Al2Si6O16]·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.25
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
New Goose Creek Quarry (Luck Company Quarry), Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia, USA