| Locality type: | Quarry |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Phillipsite-Na |
| Formula: | (Na,K,Ca0.5,Ba0.5)4-7[Al4-7Si12-9O32] · 12H2O |
| Comments: | "Phillipsite is always found in complex twinned crystals, with smaller crystals generally showing the simple forms such as the fourling, the prismatic and cruciform eightling and clusters based on these. Varieties of the larger crystals include the 'double cross', clusters based on this twinned form, and exceedingly complex rosettes and hemispheres and blocky aggregates. Some specimens from Bundoora show drusy colourless crystals of phillipsite which often appear as pseudo-octagonal aggregates with cores of white powdery phillipsite. In freshly opened cavities, crystals of phillipsite are colourless to water-clear, but the larger crystals, like those of chabazite, soon become translucent to opaque-white when allowed to dehydrate upon exposure." |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Chabazite-Na | β6 photos of Phillipsite-Na associated with Chabazite-Na at this locality. |
| Calcite | β3 photos of Phillipsite-Na associated with Calcite at this locality. |
| Gonnardite | β2 photos of Phillipsite-Na associated with Gonnardite at this locality. |
| Iron-bearing Calcite | β2 photos of Phillipsite-Na associated with Iron-bearing Calcite at this locality. |
| Natrolite | β1 photo of Phillipsite-Na associated with Natrolite at this locality. |
| Analcime | β1 photo of Phillipsite-Na associated with Analcime at this locality. |
| Ilmenite | β1 photo of Phillipsite-Na associated with Ilmenite at this locality. |
| Chabazite-Ca | β1 photo of Phillipsite-Na associated with Chabazite-Ca at this locality. |
| Copper | β1 photo of Phillipsite-Na associated with Copper at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Phillipsite-Na data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (9 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 796492 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:796492:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | e9065508-881f-4fa3-a50e-79f11cccccb2 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Phillipsite-Na |
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| 12.7km (7.9 miles) | βCorporation quarries, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia |
| 13.0km (8.1 miles) | βF-19 Freeway cutting, Fairfield, City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia |
| 13.4km (8.3 miles) | βF-19 Freeway Cutting, Abbotsford, City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia |
| 42.9km (26.6 miles) | βPioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria, Australia |
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Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia