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Gonnardite On Ferroan Calcite

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Gonnardite On Ferroan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Boral Quarry, Bundoora, Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.6 × 1 cm
Description

Tuffed spheres of translucent white acicular gonnardite crystals on dark amber ferroan calcite crystals and chabazite crystals from the now defunct Bundoora Quarry

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gonnardite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca)2(Si,Al)5O10·3H2O
Strunz: 
9.GA.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
La Chaux de Bergonne, Gignat, Saint-Germain-Lembron, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France

Ferroan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Fe)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0
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