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Okenite With Calcite

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Okenite With Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Malad Quarry, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm
Description

Typical specimen of puffy spheroidal and radially distributed hairy crystals of okenite of nice snow white colour with some transparent calcite crystals at the base. It will be shipped glued in a display box to avoid any damages during transport.

Ex Gerard Vogel collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Okenite

Formula: 
CaSi2O5·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.40
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Qutdligssat (Kudlisat), Qeqertarsuaq Island (Disko Island), Qaasuitsup, Greenland

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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