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Lombardoite

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Lombardoite

Rare Mineral from Type Locality
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Description
Locality: 
Valletta Mine, Aisone, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 1 cm
Description

Reddish-brown subhedral crystals in quartz of this new species recently
approved as IMA 2016-058. It's the new member of the brackebuschite
group.The name lombardoite is after Bruno Lombardo, italian geologist and petrologist of CNR.
Analysed material from the little but outstanding mine in the Cottian
Alps.

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What's on the rock

Lombardoite

Formula: 
Ba2Mn3+(AsO4)2(OH)
Group Parent: 
Brackebuschite
Type Locality: 
Valletta Mine, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy

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