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Cymrite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Benallt Mine, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm
Description

Yellow brown crystal aggregates of the rare Ba-Al silicate cymrite from the type locality in Wales.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cymrite

Formula: 
BaAl2Si2(O,OH)8·H2O
Strunz: 
9.EG.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Benallt Mine (Tyddyn Meirion mine; Ty Canol mine), Rhiw, Llanfaelrhys, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

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