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Lithosite

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Description
Locality: 
Vuonnemiok River Valley, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

Colorless to pale yellow inclusions of the very rare K-Al silicate mineral lithosite from the type and only known locality worldwide in Khibiny, in a  polished section that was used for analysis by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum), but the analysis is no longer available.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lithosite

Formula: 
K6Al4Si8O25·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Vuonnemiok River Valley, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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