Wadalite

Iron rich Wadalite occurs as lemon-yellow, transparent crystals up to 0.5 mm in diameter together with ettringite, gypsum, reinhardbraunsite, fluorite, cuspidine, a member of the ellestadite series, and gehlenite.
Origin: Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel, Germany (IMA 1987-045)
Sample size: micromount
 

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