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Jervisite Fluorite & Fersmite

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Jervisite Fluorite & Fersmite

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Description
Locality: 
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm
Description

a cluster of purple fluorite hosts a wonderful tuft of white jervisite that passes trough the fluorite cluster and terminates with some red fersmite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jervisite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca,Fe2+)(Sc,Mg,Fe2+)Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Giacomini quarry (Diverio quarry), Agrano, Omegna, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Fersmite

Formula: 
(Ca,Y)(Nb,Ta,Ti)2(O,OH)6
Strunz: 
4.DG.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Vein No. 37A, Buldym Lake, Vishnevye Mts (Vishnyovye; Cherry), Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...