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Stellerite

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Description
Locality: 
Klichka, Borzya, Chitinskaya Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 2.3 cm
Description

Spheroidal stellerite groups to 16 mm of nice cream colour with very intense vitreous lustre on a matrix covered by transparent calcites. Uncommon Russian locality not well represented in collections.

It comes with two previous labels, the older from the collection of W.Rössel (#335), who bought it in 04/1993.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stellerite

Formula: 
Ca4(Si28Al8)O72·28H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Mednyi Island, Commander Islands (Komandorskije ostrova), Bering Sea, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

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