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Bavenite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Cadalso de los Vidrios, Madrid, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Outstanding colorless sharp crystals of bavenite from the already famous locality for the mineral in Spain, Cadalso de los Vidrios.

Bavenite is a beryllium silicate.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bavenite

Formula: 
Ca4Be2Al2Si9O26(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DF.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

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