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Chubarovite & Fluoborite

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Chubarovite & Fluoborite

IMA2014-018
New Mineral type

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Description
Locality: 
Arsenatnaya Fumarole, Second Scoria Cone, Great Fissure, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

Chubarovite is a very rare new potassium-zinc-borate mineral forms colorless, hexagonal crystals in association with white tufts of fluoborite, crude blocky sylvine and tiny black tenorite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chubarovite

Formula: 
KZn2(BO3)Cl2
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

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
Loranth Minerals

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