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Combeite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Ol Doinyo Lengai, Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, Tanzania (United Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

Some colorless combeite crystal on matrix. Combeite is a rare mineral, found in the type locality in Congo and reported in very few locations in the world of which, this one from Tanzania is one of the few.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Combeite

Formula: 
Na2Ca2(Si6O18)0.5
Strunz: 
9.CJ.15a
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Shaheru, Mt Nyiragongo, Goma, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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