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Sodalite & Ilmenite

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Sodalite & Ilmenite

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Description
Locality: 
Moose Creek Prospect, Ice River, Golden District, British Columbia, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 2 cm
Description

A vein of sodalite on syenite with small crude sodalite crystals. The colour in not as intense as in the photos but I just couldn't get it right. Unfortunately the crystals are not well formed but even so unusual for British Columbia.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sodalite

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Ilmenite

Formula: 
Fe2+TiO3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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