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Perovskite Nepheline Pyroxene Group & Fluorapatite

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Perovskite Nepheline Pyroxene Group & Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Graulay Quarry, Hillesheim, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm
Description

Cluster of pyroxene, nepheline, fluorapatite and a sceleton of perovskite.

(FOV 3.5 mm).  From 1991.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Perovskite

Formula: 
CaTiO3
Strunz: 
4.CC.30
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Akhmatovskaya Kop' (Achmatovsk Mine), Nazyamskie Mts, Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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

Pyroxene Group

Group Members: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Orthopyroxene Subgroup

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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