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Bazzite & Gugiaite

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Bazzite & Gugiaite

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Description
Locality: 
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.1 × 2.9 cm
Description

a vug in pink granite filled with quartz and albite crystals hosts half dozen of blue prismatic crystals of bazzite, which baveno is the type locality, and some aggregate of minute white gugiaite crystals psm after bertrandite, on pale blue titanite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bazzite

Formula: 
Be3Sc2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

Gugiaite

Formula: 
Ca2Be(Si2O7)
Strunz: 
9.BB.10
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Gujia village, Tangqiao, Zhangjiagang Co., Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, China