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Pyrochlore

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Pyrochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Vishnevye Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 6 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Description

Sharp, glassy and mostly gemmy, burnished brown pyrochlore octahedrons. The main crystal is 1.6 cm, but it's only a partial crystal, not broken, just not fully developed. The rest of matrix is almost fully covered with smaller pyrochlore crystals.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrochlore

Synonym Of: 

Pyrochlore Group

Formula: 
A2Nb2(O,OH)6Z
Strunz: 
4
Hardness: 
5 - 5.5
Group Parent: 
Pyrochlore Group