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Lovdarite

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Lovdarite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa, Colfax County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small matrix specimen with a small vug hosting a nice mangan-neptunite crystal that has a tiny group of extremely rare lovdarite crystals tucked down beside it. A very rare mineral of this quarry. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lovdarite

Formula: 
K2Na6Be4Si14O36•9H2O
Strunz: 
9.GF.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Yubileinaya pegmatite (Yubileinoye; Jubilejnaja), Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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