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Stilbite

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Stilbite

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Description
Locality: 
Leveäniemi Mine, Svappavaara, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4.9 × 2 cm
Description

Attractive lustrous, yellow to honey brown coloured stilbite crystal forming rounded clusters in a continuous crust on matrix. Very nice specimen from Leveäniemi (Kiruna), and not from the classical Malmberget, that is located about 70 Km to the south.

Collected by André Heyninck. Ex André Heyninck specimen.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stilbite

Synonym Of: 

Stilbite-Ca

Formula: 
NaCa4[Al9Si27O72]·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Stilbite-Na

Formula: 
(Na,Ca,K)6-7[Al8Si28O72]·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White

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