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Monticellite & Fluorellestadite

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Monticellite & Fluorellestadite

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Description
Locality: 
Crestmore Quarries, Riverside County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.3 × 2.4 cm
Description

A grey-green crystal of monticellite with numerous yellow crystals of fluorellestadite in a matrix of blue calcite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Monticellite

Formula: 
CaMgSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AC.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Fluorellestadite

Formula: 
Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5F
Strunz: 
9.AH.25
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Coal mine No. 44, Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk coal basin, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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