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Rhodizite

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Rhodizite

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Description
Locality: 
Sahatany Valley, Ibity, Antsirabe II, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 5 × 3.1 cm
Description

A good shaped, pale yellow coloured, 0.7 cm crystal of rhodizite as well as a cruder pseudo-octahedral yellowish crystal, 1.5 cm in size, are set in a quartz/feldspar matrix.

Mineral Data
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Rhodizite

Formula: 
(K,Cs)Al4Be4(B,Be)12O28
Strunz: 
6.GC.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
8.0
Type Locality: 
Ministerskaya Yama Pit, Sarapulka District (Murzinka), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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