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Celsian & Taramellite

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Celsian & Taramellite

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Description
Locality: 
California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

Colorless celsian crystals associated to brown taramellite from California

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Celsian

Formula: 
BaAl2Si2O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Taramellite

Formula: 
Ba4(Fe3+,Ti,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Strunz: 
9.CE.20
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
Red-brown
Type Locality: 
Candoglia quarries, Candoglia, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

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