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Pokrovskite

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Pokrovskite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Huber Quarry, Winklarn, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 4 × 1.6 cm
Description

White Pokrovskite crystals and crystal sprays with white brushite and minor bluegreen Pyroaurite-2H microcrystals.

Very good and rich specimen with beautiful small crystals of this very rare mineral.

Collected 2001

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...