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Eirikite

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Eirikite

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Description
Locality: 
Vesle Arøya, Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

White crystals of eirikite from its type locality, the Eudidymite-Epididymite locality on the island Vesle Arøya in the Langesundsfjorden.

Eirikite was first described as «leifite» in 1991. Later investigations showed that it is the K-dominant member of the leifite group and was then described as the new mineral species «eirikite» by A.O. Larsen et al. in 2010.

This specimen here was found by a collector specialized in minerals from the Langesundsfjord in 1995.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eirikite

Formula: 
KNa6Be2(Si15Al3)O39F2
Strunz: 
9.EH.25
Hardness: 
6.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Eudidymite-Epididymite locality, Vesle Arøya, Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

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