Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Eifelite & Pyroxene Group

Views:
Watches:
ESM779228

Eifelite & Pyroxene Group

Rare Mineral
Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm
Description

A sharp colorless eifelite crystals with a green pyroxene cyrstal (From the original find Reihn in 1976!)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eifelite

Formula: 
KNa3Mg4Si12O30
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pyroxene Group

Group Members: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Orthopyroxene Subgroup