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Fluor-uvite

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Fluor-uvite

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Description
Locality: 
Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3 × 2.1 cm
Description

Highly lustrous gemmy tourmaline crystals of Fluor-uvite - Uvite Series with a green colour, imbedded in a matrix of more brown coloured crystals of the same species. Some crystal faces are rich in red spheroidal lepidocrocite. Very good representative piece with all the main crystals in pristine condition.

Collected in 1997. Ex J.Muizebelt specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluor-uvite

Formula: 
Ca(Mg3)MgAl5(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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