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Thomsonite-Ca & Phillipsite-Ca

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Thomsonite-Ca & Phillipsite-Ca

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Description
Locality: 
Karikás Hill Quarry, Prága Hill, Bazsi, Sümeg, Veszprém County, Hungary
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm
Description

This is a nice combo with zeolite species.

The main attraction is a white colourless crystals of thomsonite Ca associating with colourless twinned phillipsite Ca crystals and grey botryodal saponite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thomsonite-Ca

Formula: 
NaCa2[Al5Si5O20]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GA.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Old Kilpatrick, Strathclyde (Dunbartonshire), Scotland, UK

Phillipsite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca0.5,K,Na,Ba0.5)4-7[Al4-7Si12-9O32 . 12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lower Salt Lake Tuff, Puuloa Road, Oahu Island, Honolulu Co., Hawaii, USA
Loranth Minerals

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