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Kurnakovite & Pinnoite

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Kurnakovite & Pinnoite

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Description
Locality: 
Inder B Deposit, Inder, Atyrau Oblysy, Kazakhstan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2 × 3.7 cm
Description

Bright white Kurnakovite from the type locality with another rare borate pinnoite which occurs as glassy white crystals on top of the kurnakovite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kurnakovite

Formula: 
MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O
Strunz: 
6.CA.20
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Deposit No. 33, Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau (Gur'yev), Atyrau Province (Atyrau Oblysy; Atyrau Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Pinnoite

Formula: 
Mg[B2O(OH)6]
Strunz: 
6.BB.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Stassfurt, Stassfurt Potash deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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