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Prehnite With Pumpellyite

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Prehnite With Pumpellyite

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Description
Locality: 
Rauschermühle Quarry, Niederkirchen, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 8.5 × 5 cm
Description

An excellent old sample of green, botryoidal crystallized prehnite associated with crystals of olive green pumpellyite from rauschermühle quarry. Comes with a historic handwritten label of the Titus Kötting collection. Nowadays the gabbro-diabase quarry is abandoned and on the site of a nature reserve where collecting is strictly prohibited.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Prehnite

Formula: 
Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DP.20
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Karoo dolerites, Cradock, Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Pumpellyite

Synonym Of: 

Pumpellyite-(Al)

Formula: 
Ca2(Al,Fe2+,Mg)Al2(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH,O)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BG.20
Hardness: 
0.0

Pumpellyite-(Fe2+)

Formula: 
Ca2Fe2+Al2(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BG.20
Hardness: 
0.0

Pumpellyite-(Fe3+)

Formula: 
Ca2(Fe3+,Mg,Fe2+)(Al,Fe3+)2(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH,O)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BG.20
Hardness: 
0.0

Pumpellyite-(Mg)

Formula: 
Ca2MgAl2(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BG.20
Hardness: 
5.5

Pumpellyite-(Mn2+)

Formula: 
Ca2(Mn2+,Mg)(Al,Mn3+,Fe3+)2(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BG.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Group Parent: 
Pumpellyite Group

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