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Fedorovskite

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Description
Locality: 
Solongo, Ozernoe Area, Buryatia Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm
Description

Brown masses of fedorovskite with boracite and petahydroborite. 

Rare mineral from drilling workings. Type locality!

References:Malinko, S.V., T.I. Stolyarova, and D.P. Shashkin (1972) The first finding of magnesium roweite, its paragenesis and products of replacement. Zap. Vses. Mineral. Obshch., 101, 465–473 [cited in Handbook of Mineralogy]; American Mineralogist, Volume 87, pages 1509–1513, 2002; Pekov, I. (1998) Minerals First discovered on the territory of the former Soviet Union 369p. Ocean Pictures, Moscow

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fedorovskite

Formula: 
Ca2Mg2B4O7(OH)6
Strunz: 
6.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5 - 0.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Solongo B deposit, Vitim Plateau, Buriatia Republic (Buryatia), Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia