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Batisite Leucite Nepheline

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Batisite Leucite Nepheline

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Description
Locality: 
Graulay Quarry, Hillesheim, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Pink-brown, tabular crystal of batisite with leucite on altered nepheline from a fissure in basaltic matrix. FOV 1.7 mm

 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Batisite

Formula: 
BaNaNaTi2(Si4O12)O2
Strunz: 
9.DH.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Inagli chrome diopside deposit, Inagli Massif, Aldan, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Leucite

Formula: 
K(AlSi2O6)
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Nepheline

Formula: 
(Na,K)AlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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