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Bakhchisaraitsevite & Bobierrite

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Bakhchisaraitsevite & Bobierrite

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Description
Locality: 
Kovdor Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm
Description

Yellow platy bakhchisaraitsevite with colorless bobierrite cleavages in carbonatite matrix. Bakhchisaraitsevite is a very rare two locality sodium-magnesium-phosphate mineral, bobierrite is a rare magnesium-phosphate mineral. Kovdor Mine is the Type Locality of bakhchisaraitsevite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bakhchisaraitsevite

Formula: 
Na2Mg5(PO4)4·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.50
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine (Iron Mine), Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Bobierrite

Formula: 
Mg3(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.35
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mejillones peninsula, Mejillones, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Loranth Minerals

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