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Stilbite & Pyrite

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Stilbite & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Matrix with one face showing a rich coverage of transparent micro stilbite crystals which have lots of golden pyrite crystals scattered across their surface. Part of the specimen has a light pastel orange colour due to saponite type material beneath the stilbite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stilbite

Synonym Of: 

Stilbite-Ca

Formula: 
NaCa4[Al9Si27O72]·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Stilbite-Na

Formula: 
(Na,Ca,K)6-7[Al8Si28O72]·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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