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Hashemite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Ma'ale Adumim, Hatrurim Formation, West Bank, Palestinian Territory (occupied)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.8 × 0.3 cm
Description

Outstanding specimen of the extremley rare mineral hashemite from one of the only three known localities worldwide.

Hashemite is a barium chromate and is one of only three minerals with essential Ba and Cr in its chemical composition, with hawthorneite and redledgeite being the others.

Collected and analyzed by Dr. M. Murashko in 2011.

Outstanding specimen under the microscope !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hashemite

Formula: 
Ba(Cr,S)O4
Strunz: 
7.FA.15
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Lisdan-Siwaga Fault, Hashem region, Amman, Jordan

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