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Magnesiotaaffeite

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Magnesiotaaffeite

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Description
Locality: 
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu County, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some colorless elongated prisms of very rare magnesiotaffeite-2N2S in iron stained matrix. Fomerly in the Fred DeVito collection and obtained from the Peking Museum in 1981. 

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What's on the rock

Magnesiotaaffeite

Synonym Of: 

Magnesiotaaffeite-2N’2S

Formula: 
Mg3Al8BeO16
Strunz: 
4.FC.25
Hardness: 
8.0 - 8.5

Magnesiotaaffeite-6N’3S

Formula: 
Mg2BeAl6O12
Strunz: 
4.FC.25
Hardness: 
8.0 - 8.5

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