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Jervisite

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Description
Locality: 
Seula Mine, Mount Camoscio, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

This is what remains of the first jervisite specimen that I found in Baveno quarries, studied by prof. Paolo Orlandi and published in Periodico di Mineralogia 2006 : some white tiny tufts on quartz and albite and this is the second occourence for jervisite in the world ; being the first one destroyed for the analysys

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jervisite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca,Fe2+)(Sc,Mg,Fe2+)Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Giacomini quarry (Diverio quarry), Agrano, Omegna, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy