Description: Nepheline, leucite, pyroxene group Ringseitert, Kirchweiler, Daun, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 50X A pink hexagonal prism of nepheline (center), a colourless leucite trapezohedron (top left) and dark olive translucent tabular pyroxene crystals (possibly enstatite). The specimen contains also apatite needles (not visible here).

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