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Mesolite & Phacolite On Ferroan Calcite

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Mesolite & Phacolite On Ferroan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Boral Quarry, Bundoora, Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm
Description

A group of amber brown calcite variety ferroan calcite to 3.3 cm has albeit completely cover with clear twinned plate like twinned crystals of chabazite var. phacolite which has several small groups pf bright white mesolite crystals. this group has been sawn from its basalt matrix.

Collected in the late 1990's from the Boral Quarry at Bundoora Quarry in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, the quarry has now been rehabilitated.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mesolite

Formula: 
Na2Ca2Si9Al6O30·8H2O
Strunz: 
9.GA.05
Hardness: 
5.0

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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