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Lorenzenite

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Lorenzenite

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Description
Locality: 
Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.4 × 1.5 cm
Description

Radiated tufts aggregates of sharp lorenzenite crystals in all specimen vugs. Between white to yellowish colour. Accompanied by aegirine and ferrokatophorite crystals. Really nice specimen. First specimens where found by Luigi Chiappino in 2006 (Paragénesis, 2018).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lorenzenite

Formula: 
Na2Ti2(Si2O6)O3
Strunz: 
9.DB.10
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland