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Prehnite

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Prehnite

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Locality: 
O & G Woodbury Quarry, Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.4 × 4.5 × 2.6 cm
Weight: 
61.00gr
Description

One of the floater prehnites known as "hearts" that formed as replacements over now dissolved datolite.  It is a botryoidal to spherical aggregate of crystals.  The prehnite is pale green in color with minor white apophyllite crystals.  

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Prehnite

Formula: 
Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DP.20
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Karoo dolerites, Cradock, Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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