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Hydroxykenoelsmoreite & Raspite

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Hydroxykenoelsmoreite & Raspite

New Discovery

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Description
Locality: 
Le Prabis, Villapourçon, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Description

Numerous brownish-red Pseudo octaedrons of hydroxykenoelsmoreite from the second locality in the world. Only very few sample of this mineral were found so we can say it is a rare one !

This one is associated with some iron coated raspite crystals

An article was written in "Le Règne Minéral" No 159 (06/2021) on this recent discovery.

In a box 2.8x2.8cm, labelled

FoV : 3.8mm

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydroxykenoelsmoreite

Strunz: 
4.DH.15
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Colour: 
Canary Yellow
Type Locality: 
Masaka gold mine, Muyinga Province, Burundi

Raspite

Formula: 
Pb(WO4)
Strunz: 
4.DG.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

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