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Andrémeyerite

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Andrémeyerite

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Description
Locality: 
Nyiragongo Volcano, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Outstanding abundant green crystals of the extremely rare Ba-Fe silicate mineral andremeyerite from the type locality in DR Congo, and only one of the two known localities worldwide, being the other a slag locality.

Probably analyzed 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

Andrémeyerite

Formula: 
BaFe2+2(Si2O7)
Strunz: 
9.BB.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Mt Nyiragongo, Goma, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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