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Vittinkiite

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Vittinkiite

Rare Mineral
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Description
Locality: 
Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto Vara, Vara Valley, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm
Description

A new and very limited finding of this new phase (IMA approved 2019) from the prolific Cerchiara Mine.

On this specimen scattered euhedral ivory crystal are associated to colourless acicular richterite and a brown-yellowish mix of neotocite and opal. Very few specimens have been found!

Specimen is slightly etched to enhance crystal visibility.

EDS and XRD probed.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vittinkiite

Formula: 
MnMn3Mn[Si5O15]
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Type Locality: 
Vittinge Fe Mines, Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Dimorph Of: 

Pyroxmangite

Formula: 
MnSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DO.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0

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