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Manaksite Zakharovite & Villiaumite

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Manaksite Zakharovite & Villiaumite

David Burgess Collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Palitra Pegmatite, Karnasurt Mine, Kedykverpakhk Mountain, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with rich pink to colorless bladed crystals of rare manaksite in vugs and making up the matrix. Zakharovite occurs as orange cavity fillings along with minor villiaumite and other unidentified minerals. Rich!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Manaksite

Formula: 
KNaMnSi4O10
Strunz: 
9.DG.70
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Zakharovite

Formula: 
Na4Mn5Si10O24(OH)6·6H2O
Strunz: 
9.EE.65
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Villiaumite

Formula: 
NaF
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Rouma Island (Roume Island; Roma Island; Ruma Island), Los Archipelago (Los Islands), Guinea

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