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Titantaramellite & Sanbornite

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Titantaramellite & Sanbornite

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Description
Locality: 
Esquire #1 Claim, Rush Creek, Fresno County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 4.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

Brown in part elongated crystals of titantaramellite (though labeled taramellite) in whiteish platy and pearly lustrous crystallized sanbornite, a rare barium silicate. Rush Creek is the (co-)type locality for titantaramellite, a rare barium borosilicate with the formula Ba4(Ti,Fe3+,Mg)4(O,OH)2[B2Si8O27]Clx.

 

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Titantaramellite

Formula: 
Ba4(Ti,Fe3+,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Strunz: 
9.CE.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Trumbull Peak Ba-silicate deposit, Trumbull Peak, Clearing House, Clearing House District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

Sanbornite

Formula: 
Ba2(Si4O10)
Strunz: 
9.EF.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Trumbull Peak Ba-silicate deposit, Trumbull Peak, Clearing House, Clearing House District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

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