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Magbasite

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Description
Locality: 
Bayan Obo Deposit, Baotou League, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Outstanding single pinkish-violet crystal of the extremely rare mineral magbasite from the TL in Bayan Obo.

Magbasite is rarely seen in the systematic mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Magbasite

Formula: 
KBaFe3+Mg7Si8O22(OH)2F6
Strunz: 
9.HA.25
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Bayan Obo deposit (Bayun-Obo deposit; Baiyunebo deposit), Bayan Obo, Bayan Obo Mining District, Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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