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Piemontite & Laumontite

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Piemontite & Laumontite

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Description
Locality: 
Maurino Quarry, Pizzo Alzasca, Linescio, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

Very nice specimen! The pink piemontite crystals, sometime, start green from below as manganese-rich epidote, showing beautiful polychrome crystals. Together there are white laumontite crystals. Very very cute!

Additional informations: Found August 2015. Comes with a sticker label.

Ref. Lapis 1/2014+11/2015

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Piemontite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Mn3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
Reddish
Type Locality: 
Prabornaz Mine (Praborna Mine), Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy

Laumontite

Formula: 
CaAl2Si4O12·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Huelgoat (Locmaria-Berrien), Finistère, Brittany, France

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