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Bavenite & Cookeite

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Bavenite & Cookeite

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Description
Locality: 
Londonderry Li Deposit, Nepean, Western Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.4 × 2 cm
Description

Bavenite is a raresilicate and this specimen is almost solid sprays of interlocking bavenite sprays with minor cookeite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bavenite

Formula: 
Ca4Be2Al2Si9O26(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DF.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

Cookeite

Formula: 
(Al2Li)Al2(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA
Earthstones Australia

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