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Herschelite & Gmelinite Na

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Herschelite & Gmelinite Na

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Description
Locality: 
Boron, Kern County, California, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm
Description

Collected from the Saddleback basalt in the US borax Openpit at Boron, a cavity with translucent freestanding translucent white herschelite crystals with a large cluster of gmelinite Na crystals. Herschelite is a variety of chabazite Na

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Herschelite

Synonym Of: 

Chabazite-Na

Formula: 
(Na2,K2,Ca,Sr,Mg)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0

Gmelinite

Synonym Of: 

Gmelinite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,Na2)[Al2Si4O12]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.05
Hardness: 
4.5

Gmelinite-K

Formula: 
(K2,Na2,Ca)[Al2Si4O12]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.05
Hardness: 
4.5

Gmelinite-Na

Formula: 
(Na2,Ca)[Al2Si4O12]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.05
Hardness: 
4.5
Group Parent: 
Zeolite Group
Earthstones Australia

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