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Tourmaline With Hydroxylherderite & Childrenite

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Tourmaline With Hydroxylherderite & Childrenite

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Description
Locality: 
Shengus, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Description

A superb nice combination specimen well terminated gemmy toumaline crystals hosts to well doubly terminated hydroxyleherderite crystals, there are other many well doubly termnated childrenite crystals hosts to hydroxylherderite crystal, ,, during photography large tourmaline crystals moved out from hydroxyleherderite crystal and repaired.  Very nice captivating specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

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

Hydroxylherderite

Formula: 
CaBe(PO4)(OH,F)
Strunz: 
8.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
white

Childrenite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK

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