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Okenite

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Okenite

ex collection Dr. Krassmann
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Description
Locality: 
Bramburg Quarry, Adelebsen, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.7 × 8.5 × 3 cm
Description

Not India, but a large 'ball' of hairfine, white okenite crystals on basalt matrix.

Other minerals on the specimen could be zeolites like fluorapophyllite-(k), thomsonite and/or 'phillipsite'.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Okenite

Formula: 
CaSi2O5·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.EA.40
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Qutdligssat (Kudlisat), Qeqertarsuaq Island (Disko Island), Qaasuitsup, Greenland

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