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Pyroxferroite

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Pyroxferroite

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Description
Locality: 
Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Small gray to brownish pyroxferroite crystals on matrix with sanidin.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyroxferroite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mn,Ca)SiO3
Strunz: 
9.DO.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility), The Moon