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Lévyne-Ca Erionite

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Lévyne-Ca Erionite

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Description
Locality: 
Beech Creek Quarry, Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 2 cm
Description

Basaltic matrix with a vug lined with tabular levyne-Ca with epitaxial overgrowth of erionite. Collected in 1979.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lévyne-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,Na2,K2)[Al2Si4O12]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.15
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dalsnipa (Dalsnypen), Sandoy Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark

Erionite

Synonym Of: 

Erionite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,K2,Na2)2[Al4Si14O36]·15H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.20
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Erionite-K

Formula: 
(K2,Ca,Na2)2[Al4Si14O36]·15H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.20
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Erionite-Na

Formula: 
(Na2,K2,Ca)2[Al4Si14O36]·15H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.20
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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