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Clinoptilolite

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Clinoptilolite

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Description
Locality: 
Basalt Quarry, Weitendorf, Leibnitz District, Styria, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

Very nice colorless, partially twinned clinoptilolite crystals on saponite. Good miniature speciemen with perfect crystals.

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Clinoptilolite

Synonym Of: 

Clinoptilolite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,K)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Clinoptilolite-K

Formula: 
(K,Na,Ca)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Clinoptilolite-Na

Formula: 
(Na,K,Ca)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Loranth Minerals

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