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Kilchoanite

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Kilchoanite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Fuka Mine, Bitchu-cho, Takahashi, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

White crystal aggregates of kilchoanite in a matrix of purple spurrite.

Associated minerals are also hillebrandite, gehlenite and rankinite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kilchoanite

Formula: 
Ca6(SiO4)(Si3O10)
Strunz: 
9.BJ.45
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, North West Highlands (Argyllshire), Scotland, UK

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