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Melilite Var Gehlenite

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Melilite Var Gehlenite

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Description
Locality: 
Scawt Hill, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.4 × 2 cm
Weight: 
12.00gr
Description

Matrix with golden brown gehlinite crystal inclusions, some of which show an epitaxial growth of dark green pyroxene. The specimen comes from a locality well known for its unusual suite of silicate minerals formed by metasomatic action on chalk country rock by a dolerite intrusion.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melilite

Group Parent: 
Melilite Group

Gehlenite

Formula: 
Ca2Al(AlSiO7)
Strunz: 
9.BB.10
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monzoni Mts, Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

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