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Chabazite-Ca Var Phacolite

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Chabazite-Ca Var Phacolite

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Description
Locality: 
Alter Stein Quarry, Allendorf, Greifenstein, Lahn-Dill, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 6.5 × 5.3 cm
Weight: 
341.00gr
Description

Very good specimen from the now defunct Alter Stein quarry: a vug in basalt hosts tan beige small calcite crystals and glassy lustrous white chabazite-(Ca) var phakolite with the typical twinning. Increasingly rare.

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chabazite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,K2,Na2)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Colle del Lares, San Nicolò Valley, Buffaure Group, Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

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