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Canavesite Inderite & Dypingite

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Canavesite Inderite & Dypingite

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Description
Locality: 
Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

White radial canavesite crystals with glassy colorless inderite crystals from the type locality for canavesite and associated to globular white dypingite. Canavesite is only known from two localities worldwide.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Canavesite

Formula: 
Mg2(HBO3)(CO3)·5H2O
Strunz: 
6.H0.50
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese District, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy

Inderite

Formula: 
MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O
Strunz: 
6.CA.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Deposit No. 7, Mt Kzyl-tau, Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau (Gur'yev), Atyrau Province (Atyrau Oblysy; Atyrau Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Dypingite

Formula: 
Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dypingdal Serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway

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