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Taramellite

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Description
Locality: 
Candoglia Quarries, Candoglia, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm
Description

brown violet taramellite crystals on marble, from its type locality

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Taramellite

Formula: 
Ba4(Fe3+,Ti,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Strunz: 
9.CE.20
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
Red-brown
Type Locality: 
Candoglia quarries, Candoglia, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy