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Lévyne & Erionite

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Lévyne & 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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

Basaltic rock matrix with several vugs showing small tabular levyne with epitaxial erionite coating. Collecte 1979.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lévyne

Strunz: 
77.1.2.8
Hardness: 
4 - 4½
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White

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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