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Batisite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Murunskii Massif, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

Brown platy crystals of batisite (labeled as the calcian variety calcium batisite in the original plastic box), a very rare mineral known from a very few localities worldwide. named from the chemical composition.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Batisite

Formula: 
BaNaNaTi2(Si4O12)O2
Strunz: 
9.DH.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Inagli chrome diopside deposit, Inagli Massif, Aldan, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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