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Tyretskite

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Tyretskite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Inder B Deposit, Inder, Atyrau Oblysy, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Whitish-yellow crystals of the rare borate mineral tyretskite from the second known locality worldwide

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tyretskite

Formula: 
Ca2B5O9OH·H2O
Strunz: 
6.ED.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tyret' railway station, Lena-Angara salt Basin, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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