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Chabazite-Ca Chabazite-K & Calcite

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Chabazite-Ca Chabazite-K & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Alter Stein Quarry, Allendorf, Greifenstein, Lahn-Dill, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 5.7 × 4 cm
Description

Vug in basaltic matirix lined with small calcite crystals and one prominent chabazite crystal as a complex twin in the phacolite form. Some small phillipsite is also present.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chabazite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,K2,Na2)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Colle del Lares, San Nicolò Valley, Buffaure Group, Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Chabazite-K

Formula: 
(K2,Ca,Na2,Sr,Mg)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ercolano, Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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