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Suzukiite

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Suzukiite

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Description
Locality: 
Mogurazawa Mine, Kiryuu City, Gunma Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

Emerald green microcrystals of the very rare mineral suzukiite associated to pink rhodonite.

Suzukiite, the Ba equivalent of haradaite, has been found at the Mogurazawa mine, the type locality, and only in 3 more localities.

Very few specimens of these vanadium-bearing silicates reached the market. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Suzukiite

Formula: 
BaVSi2O7
Strunz: 
9.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Mogurazawa mine, Kiryuu City, Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan

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