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Kerimasite

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Kerimasite

Rare Mineral

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Locality: 
Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

Kerimasite is a very rare, fairly new Ca-Zr-silicate mineral of garnet structural group. It froms yellow brown grains is matrix. Label says this piece is part of the material has been tested by V.V.Sharygin.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kerimasite

Formula: 
Ca3Zr2(SiO4)(Fe3+O4)2
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kerimasi volcano, Arusha Region, Tanzania
Loranth Minerals

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