Phacolite is a variety of the mineral chabazite. For information about chabazite, please click the article tab at the top of the page, or click -here-.

Phacolite is a lens-shaped variety of chabazite that has a unique shape due to twinning/multiple twinning of rhombohedrons. Originally described from Ceská Lípa (Böhmisch Leipa), Ústí Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic.

The mineral phacolite can be translated into the following select languages:

Arabic		Bulgarian		Chinese (Sim)
Croatian		Czech		Danish
Dutch		Esperanto		Estonian
Finnish		French		German	Phakolith
Greek		Hebrew		Hungarian
Italian		Japanese		Korean
Latin		Lithuanian		Norwegian
Persian		Polish		Portuguese
Romanian		Russian		Slovak
Spanish		Swedish		Tagalog
Turkish		Ukrainian		Vietnamese

Phacolite has only been found in very limited places around the world. The map below shows major documented concentrations of phacolite:

The MIROFOSS database offers free printable geological identification tags for personal and non-profit use. These tags can be used to properly identify mineral samples in your collection. -Click here- to download a full size jpeg image for a phacolite identification tag; which can be printed on paper or used with a plastic laser printer.

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Geographical Data	Mindat.org. Retrieved on 2012-04-27
July 30, 2012	The last time this page was updated
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Phacolite from Italy