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Kaliophilite Hornblende & Sodalite

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Kaliophilite Hornblende & Sodalite

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Description
Locality: 
San Vito Quarry, Ercolano, Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 2 cm
Description

beautiful piece, the Kaliophyllite occurs in elongated cream color crystals with Sanidino, white perfect Sodalite and Ferroan Horneblenda crystals, very good old piece collected in the 1983 in this old quarry

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kaliophilite

Formula: 
KAlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Hornblende

Synonym Of: 

Ferro-hornblende

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Fe2+4Al}(AlSi7O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Magnesio-hornblende

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg4Al}(AlSi7O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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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