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Tuhualite & Narsarsukite

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Tuhualite & Narsarsukite

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Description
Locality: 
Opo Bay, Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.2 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with excellent and quite large purple crystals of tuhualite in a cavity with unusual, ugly orange narsarsukite. Rich and very good example of the species. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tuhualite

Formula: 
NaFe2+Fe3+Si6O15
Strunz: 
9.DN.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mayor Island (Tuhua), New Zealand

Narsarsukite

Formula: 
Na4(Ti,Fe)2[Si8O20](O,OH,F)2
Strunz: 
9.DJ.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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