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Pectolite & Calcite

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Pectolite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Prospect Quarry, Prospect, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2 × 1.7 cm
Description

Off white radiating sprays of pectolite with a tan tongue of calcite crystals, dusted with near colourless, terminated pectolite blades to 1.5mm. Collected in the 1970's from the now long defunct quarry in the western suburbs of Sydney.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pectolite

Formula: 
NaCa2(HSi3O9)
Strunz: 
9.DG.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sano, Mori, Mt. Baldo, Lagarina Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-Südtirol), Italy

Calcite

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