EUDIALYTE
Eudialyte crystals are tabular, rhombohedral, or prismatic. Eudialyte is yellowish brown, to brownish red, red, or pink in colour, and the streak is colourless. It is a translucent mineral, and has a vitreous to dull lustre. It forms in coarse-grained acid and intermediate igneous rocks and is easily dissolved in acids. Lakarpite is a nepheline (feldspar) rock containing, nepheline, eckermannite and arfvedsonite. Also in this sample are some very rare (beige) crystals of rosenbuschite. Group: Silicates Composition: Na4(Ca,Ce)2(Fe+2Mn+2Y)ZrSi8O22(OH,CI)2 Hardness: 5-5.5 SG: 2.74-2.98 Cleavage: Indistinct Fracture: Uneven. More here
|