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Hillesheimite & Batisite

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Hillesheimite & Batisite

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Description
Locality: 
Graulay Quarry, Hillesheim, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

A rarity from the Eifel Mountains with small yellowish platy aggregates of Hillesheimite up to 0.5 mm diameter in parageneses of a brownish aggregate of small crystals of Batisite on matrix.
 

Please not that the shipment from Germany to foreign states gets sadly higher for me as a private seller. So there is tracked shipment oversea for 24 $. I´m very sorry for that, but thats are the policy of the German Post since 2019.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hillesheimite

Formula: 
(K,Ca,Ba,□)2(Mg,Fe,Ca,□)2[(Si,Al )13O23(OH)6](OH)·8H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Graulay (Graulai; Graulei; Grauley), Hillesheim, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Batisite

Formula: 
BaNaNaTi2(Si4O12)O2
Strunz: 
9.DH.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Inagli chrome diopside deposit, Inagli Massif, Aldan, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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