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Baddeleyite

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Baddeleyite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Wet-loo, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

brownish, semi-translucent, highly lustrous, twinned, 1-cm crystals, very nice specimens;

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baddeleyite

Formula: 
ZrO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Kollonnagam, Rakwana, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka