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Ominelite & Painite

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Ominelite & Painite

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Description
Locality: 
Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 0.6 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small, parallel growth of painite crystals with two small, pale blue crystal clusters of extremely rare ominelite on the surface. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ominelite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mg)(Al,Fe3+)3(SiO4)(BO3)O2
Strunz: 
9.AJ.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
Pale blue
Type Locality: 
Misen River, Omine Mts, Tenkawa village, Yoshino-gun, Nara Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Painite

Formula: 
CaZrAl9(BO3)O15
Strunz: 
6.AB.85
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
8.0
Type Locality: 
Ohngaing (Ohn Gaing; Ohn Kai), Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)

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