Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Borcarite & Szaibélyite

Views:
Watches:
ESM552823

Borcarite & Szaibélyite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Snezhnoe Deposit, Eastern Sayan, Buryatia Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

Massive bluish crystalline borcarite with white earthy szaibelyite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Borcarite

Formula: 
Ca4Mg(B4O6(OH)6)(CO3)2
Strunz: 
6.DA.40
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Snezhnoe B oreoccurrence, Izvestkovyi Stream, Titovskoe B deposit, Tas-Khayakhtakh Range, Dogdo River Basin, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Szaibélyite

Formula: 
MgBO2(OH)
Strunz: 
6.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania