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Carboborite & Sakhaite

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Carboborite & Sakhaite

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Description
Locality: 
Titovskoe B Deposit, Tas-Khayakhtakh, Dogdo River, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.4 × 0.9 cm
Description

Crusts of small colourless transparent well-shaped crystals on a ludwigite-sakhaite matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carboborite

Formula: 
Ca2Mg[B(OH)4]2(CO3)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
6.AC.50
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Da Qaidam salt lake (Dachaidan salt lake), Da Qaidam Co. (Dachaidan Co.), Haixi Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China

Sakhaite

Formula: 
Ca12Mg4(BO3)7(CO3)4(OH)2Cl
Strunz: 
6.AB.65
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Titovskoe B deposit, Tas-Khayakhtakh Range, Dogdo River Basin, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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