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Roedderite

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Roedderite

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Description
Locality: 
Iodake, Satsuma-Ioujima, Kagoshima, Kyushu Region, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm
Description

This specimen features beautiful, complex blue crystals of Roedderite from the Iodake Volcano.   The crystals appear in vugs around the specimen as minute crystals in parallel arrangement with a slightly melted appearance.  

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Roedderite

Formula: 
(Na,K)2(Mg,Fe)5Si12O30
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Indarch meteorite (Elizabethpol; Gindorcha; Glindorcha; Indarh; Indarkh; Schuscha; Suscha [NHM cat.]), Shusha, Naxçıvan District (Naxcivan; Nakhichevan), Azerbaijan

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