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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Kovdor Phlogopite mine, Kovdor Massif, Kola, Russia
- Formula
- Na3(BaNa)Ti3(Si2O7)2O2(OH)2
- Size
- Thumbnail 3x2.5x2.5cm
- Special Info
- Type Locality
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- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
Tiny brown grains and stringers up to 2mm. Found in perakaline pegmatites. Rare.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
- Formula
- Cu2+7Te4+O4(SO4)5·KCl
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.5x1.5x1.5cm
- Tagged
- copper , tellurium
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
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- Type & Only Locality
This is a one locality mineral and is an extremely rare copper tellurate. The specimen has a tiny orange tabular crystal to about 0.5mm or maybe a little less. Identified by Dr. Igor Pekov, to whom described the mineral.
The excat locality is: Yadovitaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russia
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
- Formula
- Cu2+7Te4+O4(SO4)5·KCl
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.1x1.7x0.9cm
- Tagged
- copper , tellurium
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
- Special Info
- Type & Only Locality
This is a one locality mineral and is an extremely rare copper tellurate. The specimen has a tiny orange tabular crystal to about 0.75mm or maybe a little less. Identified by Dr. Igor Pekov, to whom described the mineral.
The excat locality is: Yadovitaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russia
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
- Formula
- Cu2+7Te4+O4(SO4)5·KCl
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.5x2x2cm
- Tagged
- copper , tellurium
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
Nabokoite are the yellow crystals aall about matrix. There are a few good bladed crystals as seen in the photos.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Djebel Nador, Constantine prov., Algeria
- Formula
- PbSb3+O2Cl
- Size
- Miniature 3.5x2.5x2cm
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Bladed crystals of Nadorite to 2mm open vugs of massive Nadorite. Ex. Mike Grobem specimen with the usual inked on label on white background. Also comes with an older label and Mike's special plastic tag.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Djebel Nador, Constantine prov., Algeria
- Formula
- PbSb3+O2Cl
- Size
- SmCabinet 8x6x4cm
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Now this is a Nadorite specimen - and a large one to boot. I wanted to split this down, but it would have ruined the old vug lined with worn Nadorite crystals. Heavy from all the antimony, probably has some Valentinite crystals in between the Nadorite blades.
