Mineralpedia Details for Edingtonite
Edingtonite
- Formula
- Ba(Si3Al2)O10ยท4H2O
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Pseudo Tetragonal, Prismatic, Massive
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- brownish gray, colorless, gray, white, pink
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Disphenoidal
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 4-5
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Edingtonite from Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil
Water clear, colorless orthorhombic pseudocubic crystals to about 0.75mm covering white Natrolite crytsals to 3mm. Nice specimen of this relatively rare zeolite containing barium.
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