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Stibiotantalite With Tourmaline & Quartz

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Stibiotantalite With Tourmaline & Quartz

Extremely Rare

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Description
Locality: 
Mawi, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 3.2 × 1.8 cm
Description

 A superb and very rare nice combination matrix specimen from the locality of bright lustrous partital crystal ,  undamged yellow color stibiotantalite sb(Nb,Ta)O4   with water melon tourmaline over quartz.

No damage.

A very good specimen ever from the locality.

old time finds , very rare these days from the locality.Analyzed.

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stibiotantalite

Formula: 
Sb(Ta,Nb)O4
Strunz: 
4.DE.30
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Greenbushes Sn placers, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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