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Melilite Nepheline & Magnetite

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Melilite Nepheline & Magnetite

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Description
Locality: 
Löhley, Üdersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 2.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

Good orange coloured, blocky melilite crystals and crystal groups with white, hexagonal nepheline crystals. The specimen is also rich in colorless, acicular apatite and black octahedral magnetite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melilite

Group Parent: 
Melilite Group

Nepheline

Formula: 
(Na,K)AlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Magnetite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black
Loranth Minerals

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