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Jeremejevite Topaz & Sodalite

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Jeremejevite Topaz & Sodalite

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Description
Locality: 
Wannenköpfe Quarry, Ochtendung, Maifeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Description

A fine micromount showing a roundish spray of blue Jeremevite, snow-white Sodalites and white prismatic Topaz crystals inside a Sanidine-coated vug.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jeremejevite

Formula: 
Al6(BO3)5(F,OH)3
Strunz: 
6.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Soktuj Gora (Mount Soktuj), Adun-Cholon Range, Nerchinsk Gem mines, Nerchinsk (Nertschinsk), Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

Topaz

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
8.0
Streak: 
White

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