Mineralpedia Details for Epididymite
Epididymite
- Formula
- Na2Be2Si6O15·H2O
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Perfect, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- colorless, white, gray, yellow, blue
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 5.5
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Epididymite from Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colorless, lustrous, twinned Epididymite crystal to 3mm with Rhodochrosite and Aegerine.
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