Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Limberg Quarries
- Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl
- Emmendingen
- Freiburg Region
- Baden-Württemberg
- Germany
48.1490°, 7.6028°
14recorded occurrences
Physical
Optical
- Optical type
- Isotropic
PPL intrinsic colour; no change on stage rotation
XPL extinct at every orientation
Crystallography
- Space group
- Fd-3m
- Cell parameters
- a = 24.68(4) Å
- Z
- 4
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Faujasiet-Na
In other languages
- German
- Faujasit-Na
- Spanish
- Faujasita-Na
- Italian
- faujasite-Na
- Chinese
- 钠八面沸石
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.GD.30
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.GTektosilicates with zeolitic H2O; zeolite familyDivision
- 9.GDChains of 6-membered rings – tabular zeolitesGroup
- 9.GD.30Faujasite-NaSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1958Bergerhoff, G., Baur, W.H., Nowacki, W. (1958) Über die Kristallstruktur des Faujasites. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte: 1958: 193-200.
- 1997Coombs, Douglas S., Alberti, Alberto, Armbruster, Thomas, Artioli, Gilberto, Colella, Carmine, Galli, Ermanno, Grice, Joel D., Liebau, Friedrich, Mandarino, Joseph A., Minato, Hideo, et al. (1997) Recommended nomenclature for zeolite minerals; report of the Subcommittee on Zeolites of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. The Canadian Mineralogist, 35 (6). 1571-1606
- 2001(2001) Faujasite-Na. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
- 2018Fantini, Riccardo, Arletti, Rossella, Pastero, Linda, Quartieri, Simona, Di Renzo, Francesco, Cámara, Fernando, Vezzalini, Giovanna (2018) Structure of natural and NH4-exchanged Sasbach faujasite: a single-crystal study. European Journal of Mineralogy, 30 (3) 515-523 doi:10.1127/ejm/2018/0030-2745DOI: 10.1127/ejm/2018/0030-2745
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Faujasite-Na — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/faujasite-na-6922},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}