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Bityite

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Description
Locality: 
Harding Mine, Picuris, Taos County, New Mexico, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

Colorless to white tabular crystals of the “brittle mica” bityite in matrix rich in silvery muscovite and black biotite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bityite

Formula: 
LiCaAl2(AlBeSi2O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.35
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Maharitra (Manitra), Sahatany Valley, Sahatany Pegmatite Field (Mt Ibity area), Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Earthstones Australia

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