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Elpidite With Aegirine & Albite

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Elpidite With Aegirine & Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Umbozero Mine, Alluaiv Mountain, Lovozero, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 5.5 × 5.2 cm
Description

Ivory-colored, flat-bladed elpidite crystals in a vuggy specimen with greenish-black aegirine and minor albite. Very nice, rich specimen. Several vugs filled with elpidite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Elpidite

Formula: 
Na2ZrSi6O15·3H2O
Strunz: 
9.DG.65
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

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