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Chayesite & Roedderite

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Chayesite & Roedderite

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Description
Locality: 
Sierra de las Cabras, Cancarix, Albacete, Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 4 × 3.7 cm
Weight: 
45.00gr
Description

Very interesting group of chayesite and roedderite crystals on lamproite matrix from this classic Spanish site.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chayesite

Formula: 
K(Mg,Fe)4FeSi12O30
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Moon Canyon, Woodland, Summit Co., Utah, USA

Roedderite

Formula: 
(Na,K)2(Mg,Fe)5Si12O30
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Indarch meteorite (Elizabethpol; Gindorcha; Glindorcha; Indarh; Indarkh; Schuscha; Suscha [NHM cat.]), Shusha, Naxçıvan District (Naxcivan; Nakhichevan), Azerbaijan

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