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Titantaramellite

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Titantaramellite

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Description
Locality: 
Big Creek, Fresno County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

brownish long prismatic crystals of 7 mm in quartz diopside matrix. 0,5 mm crystals of titantaramellite in a size are widespread in the barium silicate rocks in the Big Creek. But crystals in a size of 7 mm are a big rarity;

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Titantaramellite

Formula: 
Ba4(Ti,Fe3+,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Strunz: 
9.CE.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Trumbull Peak Ba-silicate deposit, Trumbull Peak, Clearing House, Clearing House District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA