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Pyroaurite-2H Pokrovskite & Titanite

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Pyroaurite-2H Pokrovskite & Titanite

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Description
Locality: 
Huber Quarry, Winklarn, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 5.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

For the locality typically colored pyroaurite-2h (the only place with this color) with brownish pokrovskite and green titanite.

Rare. Only 9 localities worldwide for pokrovskite and the only occurence of blue pyroaurite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyroaurite-2H

Formula: 
Mg6Fe3+2(CO3)(OH)16·4H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Pokrovskite

Formula: 
Mg2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Dunite lens, Zlatogorsk ultramafic intrusion, Zlatogorsk, Northern Kazakhstan Province (Soltüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Severo-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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