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Beryllite

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Description
Locality: 
Natrolite Stock, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozero Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.1 × 1.1 cm
Description

Beryllite is a rare Be-silicate mineral, forms coating masses and fine spherulitic aggregates in white to brown color. The shiny plates in the matrix are epidydimite cleavages, the pinkish aggregates are possibly organovaite crystal sections.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Beryllite

Formula: 
Be3(SiO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.AE.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Natrolite Stock (Pegmatite No. 61), Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...
Loranth Minerals

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