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Uralborite

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Uralborite

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Description
Locality: 
Novofrolovskoye Deposit, Turjinsk, Turya River, Krasnotur'insk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm
Description

White crystals of the rare borate mineral uralborite from the type locality for the mineral and only one of the two known mineral localities worldwide.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uralborite

Formula: 
Ca2[B3O3(OH)5·OB(OH)3]
Strunz: 
6.DA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
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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