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Momoiite

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Description
Locality: 
Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Genova, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm
Description

Outstanding green crystals of the very rare Mn-V mineral momoite (labeled as yamatoite in the plastic box) from the famous Gambatesa mine (new locality for the mineral).

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Momoiite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Ca)3V3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kurase mine, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan

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