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Clinopyroxene Subgroup

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Clinopyroxene Subgroup

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Description
Locality: 
Laacher See, Glees, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Outstanding black crystals of albanite, a clinopyroxene leucitite, from Germany.

Albanite is a leucitic rock with foids (mostly leucite) constituing 60 to 90% of light-coloured constituents and with pyroxene.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clinopyroxene Subgroup

Group Members: 
Aegirine
Aegirine-augite
Clinoenstatite
Clinoferrosilite
Diopside
Esseneite
Grossmanite
Hedenbergite
Jadeite
Jervisite
Johannsenite
Kanoite
Kosmochlor
Kushiroite
Namansilite
Natalyite
Omphacite
Petedunnite
Pigeonite
Spodumene
Group Parent: 
Pyroxene Group

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