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Vlasovite

Rare Mineral

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Locality: 
Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm
Description

Fantastic specimen with least twenty milk white crystals of vlasovite on matrix: the crystals of vlasovite are known only in this locality and I have found this mineral only two time. In association there are also some red crystals of fluornatropyrochlore

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Vlasovite

Formula: 
Na2ZrSi4O11
Strunz: 
9.DM.25
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Vavnbed Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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