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Bixbyite

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Locality: 
NChwaning III Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 5.2 × 1.7 cm
Weight: 
47.48gr
Description

The specimen consists of lamellar bands of ore with cubic crystals grown out on either side of each band creating a wafer-like sandwich of bixbyite crystals. The crystals are mostly tiny. The specimen stands successfully on one of the long edges. On one ridge on the upper side there appears to be what looks like mozartite. These tabular crystals with beveled edges are up to 0.4cm. Both of these metallic species reflect a metallic black-grey silver colour.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bixbyite

Formula: 
Mn3+2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.10
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Maynard's claim (Pismire Knolls), Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA...

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