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Lévyne-Ca Chabazite-Ca & Phillipsite

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Lévyne-Ca Chabazite-Ca & Phillipsite

Self collected Summer 2008
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Description
Locality: 
Dunseverick, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 2.1 × 2 cm
Weight: 
25.00gr
Description

Basalt matrix with an amygdale lined with colourless levyne-Ca crystals with a pair of penetration twinned chabazite-Ca crystals a a milky white phillipsite crystal. J8

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lévyne-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,Na2,K2)[Al2Si4O12]·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.15
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dalsnipa (Dalsnypen), Sandoy Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark

Chabazite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,K2,Na2)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Colle del Lares, San Nicolò Valley, Buffaure Group, Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Phillipsite

Synonym Of: 

Phillipsite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca0.5,K,Na,Ba0.5)4-7[Al4-7Si12-9O32 . 12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0

Phillipsite-K

Formula: 
(K,Na,Ca0.5,Ba0.5)4-7[Al4-7Si12-9O32] . 12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0

Phillipsite-Na

Formula: 
(Na,K,Ca0.5,Ba0.5)4-7[Al4-7Si12-9O32]·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Group Parent: 
Zeolite Group

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