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Girvasite

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Girvasite

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Description
Locality: 
Mejillones Peninsula, Mejillones, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2.12 × 1.4 cm
Description

Colourless girvasite crystals on matrix. Minor bakchisaraitsevite present. 

Rare mineral!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Girvasite

Formula: 
NaCa2Mg3(PO4)2(H2PO4)(CO3)(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DO.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine (Iron Mine), Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...