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Burtite

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Description
Locality: 
Wadi Beht, El Hammam, Meknès Prefecture, Fès-Meknès Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

Yellow microcrystals of the extremely rare Sn mineral from the type locality in Morocco and only one of the two known localities worldwide.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this extreme rarity almost never seen in the systematic mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Burtite

Formula: 
Ca[Sn(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Beht River, El Hammam (El Hamman), Meknès, Meknès Prefecture, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

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