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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: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Description

A 5mm vein of sodalite on syenite with openings containing small crudely formed sodalite crystals and in at least one opening Ilmenite crystals. Fluoresces orange. The colour in not quite as intense as in the photos but I just couldn't get it right. 

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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