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Prehnite

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Description
Locality: 
Rauschermühle Quarry, Niederkirchen, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.2 × 8.2 × 3.2 cm
Description

You are looking at fine specimen of botryoidal prehnite accompanied by white calcite. The prehnite has a pale apple-green colour, is silky lustrous and mostly undamaged. This is a very good oldtimed Rauschermühle specimen in good shape.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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
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