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Cavansite

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Cavansite

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Description
Locality: 
Wagholi Quarry, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 9.4 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Rich, blue-green, lustrous sphaeroidal aggregates of thin prismatic cavansite crystals up to 0.4 cmm tall on matrix from the famous Wagholi Quarry in Pune, India. The sphaeroids show no visible damage and are very aesthetically associated with white, platy, lustrous stilbite crystals up to 1.4 cm in size, some of them doubly terminated. A really aesthetic, undamaged piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cavansite

Formula: 
Ca(VO)Si4O10·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Owyhee Dam, Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur Co., Oregon, USA
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