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Metaborite

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Metaborite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

A very good sample with many colorless, well formed crystals of this rare borate. Not easy to photograph.

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Metaborite

Formula: 
HBO2
Strunz: 
6.GD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley, Aktobe Province (Aqtöbe Oblysy; Aktubinskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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