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Okenite & Prehnite

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Okenite & Prehnite

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Description
Locality: 
Pune (Poonah), Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.4 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

From the late 1980s stems this old time Pune specimen with a tuft of acicular white okenite on prehnite covering a vug in basaltoid trapp matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Okenite

Formula: 
CaSi2O5·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.40
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Qutdligssat (Kudlisat), Qeqertarsuaq Island (Disko Island), Qaasuitsup, Greenland

Prehnite

Formula: 
Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DP.20
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Karoo dolerites, Cradock, Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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Best regards Roger