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Kimrobinsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Forrestania Gold Project, Mount Holland, Forrestania, Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

TEN white-lemon microspecimens of the extremely rare Ta-Nb mineral kimrobinsonite from the type locality in Western Australia and only one of the two known localities worldwide.

Analyzed specimens by SEM/EDS (see copy enclosed).

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

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kimrobinsonite

Formula: 
(Ta,Nb)(OH)5-2x(O,CO3)x ; x near 1.2
Strunz: 
4.FG.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Forrestania Rubellite pegmatite (Mount Hope pegmatite), Mount Holland pegmatite field, Yilgarn shire, Western Australia, Australia

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