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Cahnite & Borcarite

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Cahnite & Borcarite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.7 × 1.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on an excellent thumbnail of this rare material with large green clusters of borcarite blades hosting numerous grey, vitreous groups of cahnite tetrahedra. This material is best of for both species, and the exact location is still uncertain. Some say the material is from the nearby Shijiangshan Mine. Either way, this is rare material and very unusual!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cahnite

Formula: 
Ca2[B(OH)4](AsO4)
Strunz: 
6.AC.70
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Borcarite

Formula: 
Ca4Mg(B4O6(OH)6)(CO3)2
Strunz: 
6.DA.40
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Snezhnoe B oreoccurrence, Izvestkovyi Stream, Titovskoe B deposit, Tas-Khayakhtakh Range, Dogdo River Basin, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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