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Bromellite

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Bromellite

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Description
Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 6.6 × 3.4 cm
Description

Colourless bromellite in matrix. U Nyberg specimen and identification. 

References: Zeits. Krist. Min.(1925) 62, 113-122; Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1028; Nysten, P., Holtstam, D. and Jonsson, E. (1999) The Långban minerals. In Långban - The mines,their minerals, geology and explorers (D. Holtstam and J. Langhof, eds.), Swedish Museum of Natural History and Raster Förlag, Stockholm & Chr. Weise Verlag, Munich, pp. 89-183.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bromellite

Formula: 
BeO
Strunz: 
4.AB.20
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
9.0
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden