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Prehnite With Quartz

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Prehnite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
153.00gr
Description

Elegant miniature featuring a two textbook prehnite spheroids with evident crystals protruding from an etched calcite, quartz rich vug, within volcanic rock.

Originally sold to me as a Fassa specimen some years ago, I rather believe this is an Indian specimen - of pretty good quality though!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Prehnite

Formula: 
Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DP.20
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Karoo dolerites, Cradock, Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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