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Leucite

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Somma, Vesuvius, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Description

A sharp 3 cm cream-white leucite crystal accompanied by some smaller once and black augite on grey basalt.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Leucite

Formula: 
K(AlSi2O6)
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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