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Pyrochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Vishnevye Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 6.5 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

A rich coverage of glassy burnished brown pyrochlore octohedral crystals up to 8 mm on matrix. A very fine specimen from Vishnevye Mts, Ural Region, Russia..
Collected in the 1990's, this kind of specimens are very hard to find nowadays.
Comes from my own collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrochlore

Synonym Of: 

Pyrochlore Group

Formula: 
A2Nb2(O,OH)6Z
Strunz: 
4
Hardness: 
5 - 5.5
Group Parent: 
Pyrochlore Group
Cartils Minerals

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