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Nifontovite

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Nifontovite

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Description
Locality: 
San Bartolo Mine, Charcas, Charcas Municipality, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 0.7 × 0.4 cm
Description

A great glassy transparant gem crystal with a perfect termination. It has a small contact where another crystal grew running diagonally, upon the back face.

It is from the find in may-june 2008 when for the first time in some 70 years, gem crystals of nifontovite were found.

They crystal is much brighter in person due to the difficulty of shooting something so clean, gemmy and reflective. Beside Charcas nifontovite is ususally found only as tiny grains.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nifontovite

Formula: 
Ca3B6O6(OH)12(H2O)2
Strunz: 
6.CA.50
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Novofrolovskoye B-Cu deposit, Turjinsk, Turya river, Krasnoturjinsk (Bogolovsk; Krasnotur'insk; Krasnoturyinsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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