Elaeolite

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Stavern (Fredriksvärn), Larvik, Vestfold, Norway
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Name:	From the Greek word for fat (greasy) stone.

A variety of Nepheline

Massive, with oily or greasy luster (Fatstone, Oilstone), grey to green or blue. Originally reported from the syenite-pegmatite-dykes of the Larvik area, Norway

Classification of Elaeolite
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Norway
Vestfold Larvik Langesundsfjorden Stokkøya (Stokø; Stockö; Stocköe) Meliphanite locality	Brøgger, W.C. (1890): Die Mineralien der Syenitpegmatitgänge der südnorwegischen Augit-und Nephelinsyenite. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie und Mineralogie 16. 663 pp + 28 plates
Stavern (Fredriksvärn)	Klaproth, M.H. (1810):Chemische Untersuchung des Elaeoliths, Beiträge zur chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, Fünfter Band, Rottmann Berlin, 176-179

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