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Melkovite

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Locality: 
Shunak Mountains, Mointy Railway Station, Shet, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.2 × 0.3 × 0.1 cm
Description

Yellow melkovite, rare hydrous Ca-Fe phosphate-molybdate, known only from the sigle locality in the world. Associated minerals represented by dark-violet fluorite, feldspars, hematite and and microscopic admixtures of other molybdates - iriginite, fibrous ferrymolybdite. This is the part of material of the single find of the mineral in 1963

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Melkovite

Formula: 
[Ca2(H2O)15Ca(H2O)6][Mo8P2Fe3+3O36(OH)]
Strunz: 
8.DM.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
U-Mo occurrence, Shunak Mts, Mointy Railway Station, Mointy (Moyynty), Balkhash Region (Balqash; Karatas; Prebalkhashie), Karagandy Province (Qaragandy Oblysy; Karaganda Oblast'), Kazakhstan...
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