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Kassite

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Kassite

Don Owens collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Diamond Jo Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small micromount sample with no less than 20 clusters of pink kassite crystals on matrix with Unk #13 (a mineral related to benitoite) as tiny grey crystals. A fantastic example of the species collected by Henry Delinde in 1977. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kassite

Formula: 
CaTi2O4(OH)2
Strunz: 
4.DH.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Afrikanda Massif, Afrikanda, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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