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Zunyite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Big Bertha Mine, Middle Camp, Oro Fino, La Paz County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3 × 3 cm
Weight: 
57.00gr
Description

Very rich coverage of glassy tan to colourless octahedral, translucent crystals of this very rare silicate on a white pyrophillite and milky quartz matrix.  Zunyite fluoresces pink under short wave UV.  A very representative specimen of the species and locality

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What's on the rock

Zunyite

Formula: 
Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl
Strunz: 
9.BJ.55
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zuni Mine (Zuñi Mine), Anvil Mountain, Red Mountain District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA

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