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Ferrierite-Mg Mordenite Calcite

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Ferrierite-Mg Mordenite Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Oladri Quarries, Monastir, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

Some hemispherical groups of ferrierite-Mg crystals with white threads of mordenite crystals and nice calcite crystals, the surface is sprayed with bright crystalline lumps of manganese oxides, with a "special effect". 

It's not is a rare mineral but it's a really cute thumbnail. 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ferrierite-Mg

Formula: 
(Mg,Na2,K2,Ca)3-5Mg[Al5-7Si27.5-31O72]·18H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kamloops Lake, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Mordenite

Formula: 
(Na2,Ca,K2)Al2Si10O24·7H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Morden, Bay of Fundy, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

Calcite

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

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