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Lavinskyite & Tangeite

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Lavinskyite & Tangeite

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Description
Locality: 
Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto Vara, Vara Valley, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 0.8 × 0.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with one end of the sample hosting many tiny blue crystals of very rare lavinskyite in a bit of quartz. There are also several spots of green tangeite and sprays of an unknown pink mineral. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lavinskyite

Formula: 
K(Li,Cu,Mg,Na)2Cu6(Si4O11)2(OH)4
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Wessels Mine (Wessel's Mine), Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...

Tangeite

Formula: 
CaCu(VO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Glavnaya vein, Tyuya-Muyun Cu-V-U Deposit (Radium Mine), Alai Range (Alay Range), Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

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