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Rhodizite

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Locality: 
Antandrokomby, Madagascar
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

A nice crystallized yellowish and lustrous rhodizite together with intense pink tourmaline (liddicoatite? or elbaite-schorl series .. did not analyze) on/in pegmatite matrix.

Good example of this rare Cs-Be mineral. Specimen was labeled as Antandrokomby, but it could be from Ampasogona pegmatite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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Best regards Roger