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Ferrosaponite

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Ferrosaponite

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Description
Locality: 
Levoberezhnoe Deposit, Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin, Evenkia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 5 × 2.7 cm
Description

Brown botryoidal ferrosaponite crystals on iceland spar

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ferrosaponite

Formula: 
Ca0.3(Fe2+,Mg,Fe3+)3((Si,Al)4O10)(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EC.45
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Levoberezhnoe Iceland spar deposit, Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin (Lower Tunguska River), Evenkia (Evenkiyskiy Autonomous okrug), Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krasnoyarsk Kray; Krasnoyarskii Krai), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia