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Odintsovite

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Odintsovite

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Description
Locality: 
Murunskii Massif, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.9 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some massive pinkish grains of rare odintsovite in matrix from the type locality. One of the few minerals in nature to combine titanium and beryllium. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Odintsovite

Formula: 
K2Na4Ca3Ti2Be4Si12O38
Strunz: 
9.CJ.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Malyi Murun Massif (Malomurunskiy; Maly Murun alkaline pluton; Malyy Murun massif), Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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