Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Pectolite & Prehnite

Views:
Watches:
SYA879467

Pectolite & Prehnite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Rauschermühle Quarry, Niederkirchen, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

A ball of cream-white pectolite in the center of green prehnite, surrounded decorative by white radial pectolite aggregates.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pectolite

Formula: 
NaCa2(HSi3O9)
Strunz: 
9.DG.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sano, Mori, Mt. Baldo, Lagarina Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-Südtirol), Italy

Prehnite

Formula: 
Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DP.20
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Karoo dolerites, Cradock, Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps