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Jeremejevite Sanidine & Sellaite

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Jeremejevite Sanidine & Sellaite

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Description
Locality: 
Emmelberg, Üdersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.8 × 2 cm
Description

Part of a xenolithic void lined with colorless sanidine crystals and 5 tiny balls (up to 0.3 mm) of pale blue Jeremejevite. A few sellaite crystals are also present. Collected 1993.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jeremejevite

Formula: 
Al6(BO3)5(F,OH)3
Strunz: 
6.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Soktuj Gora (Mount Soktuj), Adun-Cholon Range, Nerchinsk Gem mines, Nerchinsk (Nertschinsk), Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

Sanidine

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drachenfels, Königswinter, Siebengebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Sellaite

Formula: 
MgF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Gébroulaz glacier, Val Thorens, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France

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