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Lévyne & Offretite

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Lévyne & Offretite

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Description
Locality: 
Burnt Cabin Creek, Spray, Wheeler County, Oregon, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4 × 2.7 cm
Weight: 
21.00gr
Description

Basalt matrix with amygdales containing white platy levyne crystals displaying an epitaxial overgrowth of micro white offretite crystals. Some amygdales also contain unusual light grey spheres with little white 'horns' projecting from them. Please message me if you can shed any light on what these may be 8) T1

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lévyne

Strunz: 
77.1.2.8
Hardness: 
4 - 4½
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White

Offretite

Formula: 
KCaMgAl5Si13O36·16H2O or near
Strunz: 
9.GD.25
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Mont Semiol (Mont Semiouse; Mont Simiouse), Châtelneuf, Saint-Georges-en-Couzan, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France

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