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Morelandite

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Description
Locality: 
Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.2 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

Light yellow to grey vitreous greasy crystals of the extremely rare Ca-Ba arsenate mineral morelandite the from type and only known locality worldwide in Jakobsberg mine.

The Jakobsberg mine is a  "Långban-type" deposit.

Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Morelandite

Formula: 
Ca2Ba3(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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