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Pyroxferroite

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Pyroxferroite

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Description
Locality: 
Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm
Description

Sculptural dark pyroxferroite on matrix. 

References: 

[Blass, G., Graf, H.W., Neufunde von bekannten Fundorten (20), Mineralien-Welt 9/1, 45, 1998] [A. Wittern: Mineralfundorte in Deutschland, Schweizerbart (Stuttgart), 2001]

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyroxferroite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mn,Ca)SiO3
Strunz: 
9.DO.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility), The Moon