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Pentagonite

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Locality: 
Wagholi Quarry, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Weight: 
0.10gr
Description

Loose crystal of dark blue pentagonite left gtom the matrix during blasting in the mines. It has perfect star like termination at one end. Getting this kind of specimen with perfect termination is very rare.

Wagholi, Pune - India is the only one location in the whole world, where best quality cavansite & pentagonite is found. Due to expansion of localities around, mines are almost on the verge of closing down.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pentagonite

Formula: 
Ca(VO)Si4O10·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.55
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Owyhee Dam, Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur Co., Oregon, USA

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