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Baddeleyite Tungusite & Analcime

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Baddeleyite Tungusite & Analcime

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Description
Locality: 
Terra do Baptista, Porto da Cruz, Machico, Madeira Islands, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm
Description

Very nice combo!

Several elongated baddeleyite crystals associated to yellow/green tungusite and analcime.

Collected: 
2021
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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baddeleyite

Formula: 
ZrO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Kollonnagam, Rakwana, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka

Tungusite

Formula: 
Ca4Fe2Si6O15(OH)6
Strunz: 
9.EE.30
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tura, Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin (Lower Tunguska River), Evenkia (Evenkiyskiy Autonomous okrug), Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krasnoyarsk Kray; Krasnoyarskii Krai), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Analcime

Formula: 
Na2(Al2Si4O12)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cyclopean Islands, Acitrezza (Aci Trezza), Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy