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Kapustinite

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Kapustinite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Palitra Pegmatite, Karnasurt Mine, Kedykverpakhk Mountain, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm
Description

Small sample of kapustinite. The whole sample consists of cherry red to purplish dark red kapustinite covered by white powder of thermonatrite.

Ex Mikhail Murashko specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kapustinite

Formula: 
Na5(Na,Mn2+)<1Zr(H2Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.15a
Hardness: 
6.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Palitra pegmatite (Palette pegmatite), Kedykverpakhk Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...
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