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Aegirine & Sodalite

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Aegirine & Sodalite

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Description
Locality: 
French River, Bigwood Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

A thumbnail specimen of bright green, flat lying, needles of aegirine on red nepheline with blue sodalite.

It is from an alkaline syenite intrusive called the Rutter Pluton which is thought to be about 975 million years old.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

Sodalite

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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