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Rhodizite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Ampanivana, Andrembesoa, Betafo, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.4 × 0.3 cm
Description

Outstanding perfect rhodizite crystal from a Madagascar locality.

Rhodizite is a cesium mineral. Cesium minerals are extremely rare in Nature since only 28 from more than 5500 known mineral species are cesium minerals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhodizite

Formula: 
(K,Cs)Al4Be4(B,Be)12O28
Strunz: 
6.GC.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
8.0
Type Locality: 
Ministerskaya Yama Pit, Sarapulka District (Murzinka), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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