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Melilite Nepheline & Sodalite

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Melilite Nepheline & Sodalite

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Description
Locality: 
Graulay Quarry, Hillesheim, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Numerous orange melilite crystals with colourless nepheline, sodalite, "apatite" and pyrossene

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melilite

Group Parent: 
Melilite Group

Nepheline

Formula: 
(Na,K)AlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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