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Svabite Braunite & Garnet

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Svabite Braunite & Garnet

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Description
Locality: 
Jokkmokk, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 5 × 5 cm
Description

Pale pinkish svabite crystals up to 0.6 cm with small, dark brown, skeletal braunite crystals on the right side of specimen, no detail picture). Little red garnet, possibly pyrope. Visible cracks are not deep and naturally healed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Svabite

Formula: 
Ca5(AsO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Braunite

Formula: 
Mn2+Mn3+6(SiO4)O8
Strunz: 
9.AG.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Oehrenstock (Öhrenstock), Langewiesen, Ilmenau District, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany

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