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Fluoborite

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Fluoborite

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Description
Locality: 
Fiano Quarries, Lavorate, Nocera Inferiore, Salerno Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm
Description

Old specimen with many nice coulorless needles of Nocerine ( discredited name now Fluocerite) collected in 1970.

The F-rich xenoliths within the Campanian Ignimbrite at Fiano were first described by Scacchi (1881, 1885, and 1890), vom Rath (1887), and Zambonini (1913 and 1919). The authors detected various newly formed phases, some of which subsequently discredited: it is the case of "nocerite" (Scacchi, 1881) recognised to be equal to fluoborite (Brisi & Eitel, 1957)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluoborite

Formula: 
Mg3(BO3)(F,OH)3
Strunz: 
6.AB.50
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tallgruvan, Kallmora, Norberg, Västmanland, Sweden

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