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Lévyne & Offretite

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Lévyne & Offretite

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Description
Locality: 
Beech Creek Quarry, Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Outstanding sharp yellow crystals of levyne associated to white offretite from a locality in Oregon, USA.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lévyne

Strunz: 
77.1.2.8
Hardness: 
4 - 4½
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White

Offretite

Formula: 
KCaMgAl5Si13O36·16H2O or near
Strunz: 
9.GD.25
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Mont Semiol (Mont Semiouse; Mont Simiouse), Châtelneuf, Saint-Georges-en-Couzan, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France

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