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Luobusaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Poltava Series, Zachativsk Station, Donets Region, Donetsk Oblast', Ukraine
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.05 × 0.05 × 0.05 cm
Description

One steel-gray metallic microspecimen of the extremely rare iron silicide luobusaite from a third known locality still not uploaded to Mindat in Russia, intermixed with white and colorless quartz crystals in a capsule.

Analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS , see copy enclosed.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Luobusaite

Formula: 
Fe0.84Si2
Strunz: 
1.BB.25
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Luobusha ophiolite ("Luobusa ophiolite"), Qusum Co. (Qusong Co.), Shannan Prefecture (Lhokha Prefecture; Lhoka Prefecture), Tibet Autonomous Region, China...

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