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Mellite Var Gehlenite & Plombièrite

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Mellite Var Gehlenite & Plombièrite

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Description
Locality: 
Scawt Hill, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3 × 2.8 cm
Weight: 
30.00gr
Description

Matrix with araeas of brown glassy gehlenite and yellow plombierite from a locality famous for its unusual suite of calc-silicate minerals formed by metasomatic action of a dolerite intrusion on chalk.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mellite

Formula: 
Al2[C6(COO)6]·16H2O
Strunz: 
10.AC.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Artern, Unstrut valley, Thuringia, Germany

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

Plombièrite

Formula: 
[Ca4Si6O16(OH)2 · 2H2O]·(Ca·5H2O)
Group Parent: 
Tobermorite Group
Strunz: 
9.DG.08
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic

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