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Babingtonite & Quartz

Antarctica Expedition GANOVEX I

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Description
Locality: 
Lillie Marleen Camp, Everett Range, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 2 cm
Description

Description

Sharp, shiny black babintonite crystals on/in clear quartz crystals.

On the rear also good prehnite crystals are present.

The specimen was found during the first german antarctica expedition GANOVEX I 1979 / 80

Rare locality

Comes with a - copy- of the handwritten label from the mineralogist of this expedition

Ex collection Dipl.Min. Ulrich Vetter, Hannover

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Babingtonite

Formula: 
Ca2(Fe,Mn)FeSi5O14(OH)
Strunz: 
9.DK.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

Quartz

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

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