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Bazzite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Mountain, Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.2 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with several vugs hosting tiny blue prisms and fragments of rare bazzite with bertrandite and hematite from this obscure locality. Verified at University of New Orleans. 

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

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