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Kentbrooksite Nepheline & Aegirine

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Kentbrooksite Nepheline & Aegirine

Rare mineral
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Locality: 
Alluaiv Mountain, Lovozero Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm
Description

Nepheline matrix with areas of orange brown kentbrookite. There is also a nepheline crystal with 'starburst' inclusions of dark green aegirine crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kentbrooksite

Formula: 
(Na,REE)15(Ca,REE)6(Mn2+,Fe2+)3Zr3Nb[Si25O74]F2·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CO.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
Kentbrooksite occurrence, Amdrup Firth, Kangerlussuaq Firth, Tunu Province (East Greenland), Greenland

Nepheline

Formula: 
(Na,K)AlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

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