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Tobermorite & Fluorellestadite

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Tobermorite & Fluorellestadite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Crestmore Quarries, Riverside County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 4.2 × 1.9 cm
Description

White grains of tobermorite with yellow fluorellestadite (wilkeite) crystals in bluish calcite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorellestadite

Formula: 
Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5F
Strunz: 
9.AH.25
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Coal mine No. 44, Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk coal basin, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...