Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Chabazite-Na & Saponite

Views:
Watches:
SKY995386

Chabazite-Na & Saponite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Horseshoe Dam - South of, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

White crystals of chabazite-Na associated to brown saponite from Arizona

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chabazite-Na

Formula: 
(Na2,K2,Ca,Sr,Mg)2[Al2Si4O12]2·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Rupe di Aci Castello, Aci Castello, Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

Saponite

Formula: 
Ca0.25(Mg,Fe)3((Si,Al)4O10)(OH)2·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.EC.45
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lizard Point, Landewednack, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, UK

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps