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Berborite

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Description
Locality: 
Saga #2 Quarry, Sagåsen, Mørje, Porsgrunn, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

A cavity within brownish natrolite rock with many acicular natrolite crystals is filled with an 1.3 cm long zone consisting of very many tiny colourless, clear and idiomorphic berborite crystals whereof several ones are prominant within the cavity due to their larger size and due to their excellent developed habit.

This is a find from 1985.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Berborite

Formula: 
Be2(BO3)(OH,F)·H2O
Strunz: 
6.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lupikko Mine, Pitkyaranta District (Pitkäranta District), Ladoga Region, Karelia Republic, Northern Region, Russia

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