Scawtite from
Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
| Locality type: | Quarry | |
| Classification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Species: | Scawtite | |
| Formula: | Ca7(Si3O9)2CO3 · 2H2O | |
| Comments: | Bundles of small tabular crystals lining veins in massive diopside-wollastonite-spurrite rock on the 910 level.; also massive. | |
| Habit: | (Murdoch, 1955): "The forms present are as follows: {100}, {110}, {120}, {130}, {010}, and {101}. The a-pinacoid is always dominant, with the prisms narrow and poorly developed. [...] nearly square tablets with one edge always bevelled, and almost invariably occurring in sub-parallel aggregates, exactly like bundles of shingles." | |
| Colour: | colourless | |
| Confirmation | ||
| Validity: | Believed Valid | |
| Associated Minerals: | ||
| Associates: | Afwillite Bultfonteinite Diopside Spurrite Wollastonite | |
| Data | ||
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Scawtite data | |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA | |
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| Data Identifiers | ||
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 688226 | |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:688226:6 | |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 | |
| Nearest other occurrences of Scawtite | ||
| 0.2km (0.1 miles) | ⓘCrestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA | |
| References | ||
Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA