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Magnesite & Svanbergite

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Magnesite & Svanbergite

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Description
Locality: 
Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.2 × 7.5 × 3.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

A large plate loaded with lustrous, colourless, rhombohedral magnesite crystals up to 1.3 cm associated with small light yellow-brown svanbergite crystals.
A very fine piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Magnesite

Formula: 
MgCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Magnisía Prefecture (Magnesia), Thessalia Department (Thessaly), Greece

Svanbergite

Formula: 
SrAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden
Cartils Minerals

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