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Benitoite With Neptunite

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Benitoite With Neptunite

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Description
Locality: 
Benitoite Mine, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 0.4 cm
Description

Fine specimen with completely build of ideally formed blue benitoite crystals showing a high transparency. In association with black elongated neptunite crystals.

Specimen comes from the type locality for benitoite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Benitoite

Formula: 
BaTi(Si3O9)
Strunz: 
9.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
California State Gem Mine (Dallas Gem Mine; Benitoite Mine; Benitoite Gem Mine; Gem Mine), Dallas Gem Mine area, San Benito River headwaters area, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Neptunite

Formula: 
Na2KLi(Fe2+,Mn2+)2Ti2(Si8O24)
Strunz: 
9.EH.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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