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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Nkumbwa Hill Carbonatite, Isoka dist., Northern prov., Zambia
- Formula
- CaMgPO4F
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.3x1.3x1.0cm
- Tagged
- phosphate
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Type locality for this rare mineral found as white plates which radiate for the most part.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Gun Claims, MacMillian Pass, Itsy Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada
- Formula
- Ba2Ca(BSi2O7)2
- Size
- Miniature 4x3x2cm
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed
- Special Info
- EDS Confirmed
Itsiite is a new barium calc-silicate found at the Gun Claims in the Itsy Mountains of the Yukon Territy. Approved by the IMA in 2013 (IMA 2013-085), it was studied and authored by Anthony R. Kampf, Ronald C. Peterson und Brian R. Joy CNMNC Newsletter No. 18, December 2013,
page 3255; Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 3249-3258. It occurs as blue platy crystals.
