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Pokrovskite

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Pokrovskite

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Description
Locality: 
Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

Sprays of acicular white pokrovskite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pokrovskite

Formula: 
Mg2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Dunite lens, Zlatogorsk ultramafic intrusion, Zlatogorsk, Northern Kazakhstan Province (Soltüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Severo-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...