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Cascandite & Fluorite

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Cascandite & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

One of the richest specimen from the scandium minerals find of june 2016: several light green, rombic crystals of cascandite (XRD probed) on quartz and albite ; inusual habit and great number of crystals makes this specimen simply unmissable !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cascandite

Formula: 
Ca(Sc,Fe3+)(HSi3O9)
Strunz: 
9.DG.07
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Giacomini quarry (Diverio quarry), Agrano, Omegna, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic