Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Zircon On Nepheline

Views:
Watches:
SHS29604

Zircon On Nepheline

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Bancroft Area, Ontario, Canada
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.3 × 3.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

Brown zircon crystal on gray nepheline

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

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