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Tilasite

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Description
Locality: 
Wanni Glacier, Monte Cervandone, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

Pinkish orange crystals of tilasite (a Ca-Mg arsenate fluoride) from this classic locality in Binntal. Associated mineral is moscovite and clinochlore. Pink tilasites can only been found in this locality, the rest of tilasites worlwide are of different colours!
For more info : Lapis 7,8/1995 page.41.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tilasite

Formula: 
CaMg(AsO4)F
Strunz: 
8.BH.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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