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Stellerite & Babingtonite

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Stellerite & Babingtonite

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Description
Locality: 
Dyer Quarry, Gickerville, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.6 × 1.2 cm
Weight: 
13.50gr
Description

Matrix free clusters of lustrous colourless stellerite crystals with a partial overgrowth of dark green babingtonite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stellerite

Formula: 
Ca4(Si28Al8)O72·28H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Mednyi Island, Commander Islands (Komandorskije ostrova), Bering Sea, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Babingtonite

Formula: 
Ca2(Fe,Mn)FeSi5O14(OH)
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

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