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Pokrovskite

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Pokrovskite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Huber Quarry, Winklarn, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a fracture surface coated in hundreds of orange pokrovskite sprays with calcite and blue pyroaurite. Probably the best locality for this quite rare species. 

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Pokrovskite

Formula: 
Mg2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Dunite lens, Zlatogorsk ultramafic intrusion, Zlatogorsk, Northern Kazakhstan Province (Soltüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Severo-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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