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Rankinite

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Description
Locality: 
Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm
Description

Dark grey rankinite embedded in garnet-melilite matrix. The colour is duet to inclusions of magnetite. 

W. Schüller & B. Ternes specimen no 2018-2 T19. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rankinite

Formula: 
Ca3Si2O7
Strunz: 
9.BC.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Scawt Hill, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK