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Bazzite

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Bazzite

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Description
Locality: 
A4 Highway Tunnel, Thiemendorf, Görlitz, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Several tiny blue hexagonal crystals of bazzite, a rare member of the beryl group, on typical pegmatite matrix.
From a rare and hard to get and nowadays gone locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bazzite

Formula: 
Be3Sc2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Cartils Minerals

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