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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Esquire #1 claim, Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ba12(Si11Al5)O31(CO3)8Cl5
- Size
- Thumbnail 1.5x1.5x1cm
- Tagged
- Ba Silicates
- Special Info
- Type Locality
A light blue crystalline grain to 3mm across in Sanbornite matrix. Kampfite is found only in the barium silicate deposits of Big Creek-Rush Creek district.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Esquire #1 claim, Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Ba12(Si11Al5)O31(CO3)8Cl5
- Size
- Miniature 5x2.5x2.5cm
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- Special Info
- Signed Label
There are two good-sized 2mm blue-gray crystal grains in the matrix of mostly Sanbornite. Associations include Titantaramellite, Celsian, Bazirite. This specimen comes with a signed label from Dr. Anthony Kampf to which the mineral was named after.
- Availability
- Sold
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- Locality
- Telemark, Norway
- Formula
- Ca2Y2(CO3)4(OH)2·3H2O
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.5x1.2x1cm
- Tagged
- carbonate , REE mineral
Tiny tannish spheroidal or crude rosettes of rare Kamphaugite-(Y). Kamphaugite-(Y) was first approved as a new IMA mineral in 1987, so fairly recent for a REE mineral.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Paratoo Cu mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
- Formula
- Ca2Y2(CO3)4(OH)2·3H2O
- Size
- Miniature 4x2.5x1cm
- Tagged
- carbonate , REE mineral
White spheroidal crystal groups to less than 0.75mm covering one half of matrix face.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Paratoo Cu mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
- Formula
- Ca2Y2(CO3)4(OH)2·3H2O
- Size
- Miniature 4.5x2.5x1cm
- Tagged
- carbonate , REE mineral
Tiny, 0.5mm, beads of tannish white Kamphaugite. Obviously very rich.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Paratoo Cu mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
- Formula
- Ca2Y2(CO3)4(OH)2·3H2O
- Size
- Miniature 5x2.5x1.1cm
- Tagged
- carbonate , REE mineral
Tiny white to tannish spheroidal or crude rosettes of rare Kamphaugite-(Y). Kamphaugite-(Y) was first approved as a new IMA mineral in 1987, so fairly recent for a REE mineral.
