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Vimsite

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Locality: 
Novofrolovskoye Deposit, Turjinsk, Turya River, Krasnotur'insk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm
Description

White crystals of the extremely rare mineral vimsite, a calcium borate, from the type locality and one of the only two known worldwide localities .

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Vimsite

Formula: 
CaB2O2(OH)4
Strunz: 
6.BC.15
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Novofrolovskoye B-Cu deposit, Turjinsk, Turya river, Krasnoturjinsk (Bogolovsk; Krasnotur'insk; Krasnoturyinsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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