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Lévyne-Ca

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Lévyne-Ca

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Description
Locality: 
Serra de Água, Madeira, Madeira Islands, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.2 × 2 cm
Description

A fabulous lévyne-Ca sample!

With several perfect and undamaged gemmy to cloudy crystals.

New find! 

First recorded locality in Portugal.

Analyzed (Raman and EDS)

Collected: 
2021
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lévyne-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,Na2,K2)[Al2Si4O12]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.15
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dalsnipa (Dalsnypen), Sandoy Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark