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Nifontovite

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Nifontovite

ex Berthold Ottens
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Description
Locality: 
Shijiangshan Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

A cluster of clear to tan colored nifontovite crystals and tiny metallic black wurtzite crystals.

 From the find March 2014

Analysed.

Comes with a label of Berthold Ottens.

Ref. : Article from Berthold Ottens in Lapis Jg.39 Nr. 7/8 - page 66 - 68

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nifontovite

Formula: 
Ca3B6O6(OH)12(H2O)2
Strunz: 
6.CA.50
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Novofrolovskoye B-Cu deposit, Turjinsk, Turya river, Krasnoturjinsk (Bogolovsk; Krasnotur'insk; Krasnoturyinsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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