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Heklaite

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Heklaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

A chip of lava of the 1895 eruption, encrusted with colorless microcrystals of heklaite associated with white khademite and yellow metavoltine. New find for this exceedingly rare species. Probed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Heklaite

Formula: 
KNaSiF6
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hekla, Southern Region, Iceland

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