Mineralpedia Details for Bakhchisaraitsevite

Named after Alexander Yu. Bakhchisaraitsev. Forms as bladed, tabular crystals or in fan-like aggregates. Found in only Russia in a vuggy, mineralized dolomite carbonatite in the Kovdor Massif in the Kola Peninsula, and at the Korkinskii quarry in the Urals Region.

Ref. Minerals and their Localities, Bernard, J.H. and Hyršl, J. (2004)

IMA/CNMNC List of Mineral Names (2009) and Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte (2000), 402

Formula

Na₂Mg₅(PO₄)₄·7H₂O 

Crystal System

Monoclinic 

Crystal Habit

Fan Shaped, Aggregates, Bladed 

Cleavage

Perfect, None, None 

Luster

Vitreous (Glassy) 

Color

colorless, yellowish white, greenish white 

Streak

white 

Class

Monoclinic - Prismatic 

Fracture

Brittle 

Hardness

2-2.5 

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Nice fan-like group of white platy crystals to 2mm. Very rare mineral, found in only two localities worldwide.