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Tatarinovite & Oyelite

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Tatarinovite & Oyelite

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Description
Locality: 
Shijiangshan Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.4 × 2.1 cm
Description

Colourless tatarinovite associated with thin tabular oyelite from the Shijiangshan mine, Inner Mongolia, China. 

XRD & SEM-EDS confirmed no 2752,  2810. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tatarinovite

Formula: 
Са3Al(SO4)[B(OH)4](OH)6·12H2O
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Type Locality: 
Western wall, Southern open pit, Bazhenovskoe deposit, Asbest, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Oyelite

Formula: 
Ca10Si8B2O29·12.5H2O
Strunz: 
9.HA.80
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Fuka mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan