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Balipholite

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Balipholite

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Description
Locality: 
Xianghualing Mine, Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1.7 cm
Description

Small orange fibrous crystals of the extremely rare Ba-Li-Mg silicate from the type and only known locality worldwide, on a whitish contrasting matrix.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
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Balipholite

Formula: 
BaLiMg2Al3(Si2O6)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Xianghualing Mine (Hsianghualing Mine), Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China

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