Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Girvasite

Views:
Watches:
JYJ719484

Girvasite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Cerro Mejillones, Mejillones Peninsula, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Very good colourless girvasite on matrix. No recent finds were made anymore and it is likely that due to heavy rain falls (El nino) in the past no more material can be recovered. P-XRD confirmed!

 

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...