Mineral Reference Lookup for
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Minerals matching tabular in the database:
Mineralogical Reference | tabular
| Mineral | Tabular Spar | | Synonym | Wollastonite |
| Mineral | WOLLASTONITE | | Color | typically white , colorless or gray. | | Luster | vitreous or dull to pearly on cleavage surfaces. | | CrystalSystem | triclinic; bar 1 | | CrystalHabits | include rare tabular crystals but more commonly massive in lamellar, radiating, compact and fibrous aggregates. | | Cleavage | perfect in two directions at near 90 degrees forming prisms with a rectangular cross-sections.A third direction of cleavage is only good to fair and overall cleavage fragments are elongated splinters. | | Fracture | perfect in two directions at near 90 degrees forming prisms with a rectangular cross-sections.A third direction of cleavage is only good to fair and overall cleavage fragments are elongated splinters. | | Hardness | 5 - 5.5. | | SpecificGravity | approximately 2.8 - 2.9 (average for translucent minerals) | | Streak | white. | | AssociatedMinerals | garnets such as grossular and andradite, vesuvianite, diopside, tremolite, epidote, various plagioclase feldsparsand of course calcite. | | Characteristics | Soluble in hydrochloric acid and some specimens will fluoresce. | | Occurences | include Willsboro and other sites in New York, Texas, California and also Franklin, New Jersey, USA; the volcano Monte Somma, Vesuvius, Italy; Perheniemi, Finland; Banat, Rumania; Saxony, Germany; Chiapas, Mexico; Greece; China; Ontario and at the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada and Tremorgio, Switzerland. | | Indicators | crystal habit, cleavage, solubility in HCl, fluorescence if present, softness and environment of formation. | | Composition | Calcium Silicate | | DensityNote | average for translucent minerals |
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