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Sodalite

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Description
Locality: 
San Vito Quarry, Ercolano, Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Description

Rich, white, flat, lustrous sodalite crystals up to 6 mm in size, associated with rich, brown, lustrous, tabular vesuvianite crystals up to 3 mm across in a vug of the matrix from Mt. Vesuvius, Italy. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sodalite

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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