| Locality type: | Occurrence |
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| Species: | Sodalite |
| Formula: | Na4(Si3Al3)O12Cl |
| Comments: | This is sodalite with a cell edge of 8.8648 A ( F. Camara (2013) Priv. Comm.)The yellow colour results from a fortuitous combination of blue and red absobsion bands. Gem Yellow sodalite is very rare. |
| Habit: | Docahedrons |
| Colour: | Yellow |
| Quality for species: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Abundance at site: | Very Rare |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Sodalite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view White Schist occurrence, Sar-e-Sang, Kuran wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 864977 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:864977:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 2e8bf2b4-22f2-48f7-b110-a26d5f4ba44c |
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 | | Book | | transparent, tabular microcrystals on matrix of white dolomite, and rarely as doubly terminated crystals...northeast of the town of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...late 2000s include specimens showing sharp, snow-white, earthy rosettes of tabular "illite" pseudocrystals...intrusive body of alkaline igneous rocks where sodalite was mined in the early 20th century, and where |
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White Schist occurrence, Sar-e-Sang, Kuran wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan