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Hingganite-(Nd) With Aegirine

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Hingganite-(Nd) With Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm
Description

Hingganite-(Nd) has now been described as a new mineral species.

Zagi Mountain, is type locality near Kafoor Dheri, about 4 km S of Warsak and 30 km NW of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province,Pakistan
CNMNC Newsletter No. 50;
Mineralogical Magazine, 31, this is well doubly terminated crystal incombination with minor arginine , old specimen , I am the one who found and discover these materials and arrange low scale mining team, the production is extremely less and not economical, a very good hinnganite Nd crystal.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hingganite-(Nd)

Formula: 
Nd2☐Be2Si2O8(OH)2
Strunz: 
8/B.29-
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5 - 6
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

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