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Yushkinite

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Yushkinite

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Description
Locality: 
Silova-Yakha River, Pay Khoy Mountains, Komi Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.2 × 0.3 × 0.5 cm
Description

pinkish-metallic aggregates to 2 mm, in white Calcite matrix, very good specimens of this rare mineral, and from a very remote location in northern Arctic Russia

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Yushkinite

Formula: 
(Mg,Al)V4+S2(OH)2
Strunz: 
2.FD.30
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Yushkinite gorge, Middle Silova-Yakha River, Pai-Khoi Range (Paikhoi; Pay Khoy), Yugorskii Peninsula, Nenetskiy Autonomous Okrug, Northern Region, Russia