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Pollucite

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Pollucite

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Description
Locality: 
Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5 × 3.7 cm
Description

Aggregate of granny white pollucite crystals from Bikita.

Recovered before 1980 form a shipment in the port of Antwerp by Jozef Verbist, who was the CEO of the CMB (Compagnie Maritime Belge).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pollucite

Formula: 
(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
La Speranza (Pisani's Quarry), San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

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