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Cavansite With Calcite

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Cavansite With Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Wagholi Quarry, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.2 × 0.6 cm
Weight: 
0.50gr
Description

Small specimen of rosette of dark blue cavansite with 2 yellow calcites. Both calcites have very attractive surface texture. Both are having cavansite bow (like english 8). Bow on one calcite has partial damages. This combination is found very rarely.

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

Cavansite

Formula: 
Ca(VO)Si4O10·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Owyhee Dam, Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur Co., Oregon, USA

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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