Melilite, Leucite & Nepheline

Löhley, Üdersdorf, Daun, Vulkaneifel District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Good pale orange coloured, blocky melilite crystals and crystal groups with white, hexagonal nepheline  and isometric leucite microcrystals. The specimen is also rich in colorless, acicular apatite and black octahedral magnetite crystals..

The specimen size 3 cm x 2,6 cm x 2,0 cm 

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I’m a professional geologist/mineralogist, with analytical background. Many of my minerals were checked by x-ray diffraction and energy dispersive spectrometry. Some of my specimens comes with the documentation of the analysises.

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