Bavenite with Switzerite & Albite
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Bavenite with Switzerite & Albite
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- Sold
- Size
- 9.5 x 6 x 5 cm - Cabinet
- Formula
- Ca4Be2Al2Si9O26(OH)2 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Foote mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, United States
- Tagged
- beryllium
Bavenite is chiefly a pegmatitic mineral mostly because this is where the most beryllium minerals are found. Although it is also found in skarns and hydrothermal veins. This specimen contains numerous snow white sprays of bladed Bavenite crystals to 1mm scattered amongst Albite crystals and what I believe to be Switzerite (golden brown).
Bavenite
- Formula
- Ca4Be2Al2Si9O26(OH)2
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Lamellar, Massive - Lamellar, Radial
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Fair, None
- Luster
- Vitreous - Pearly
- Color
- white, green, pink, brown
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
- Fracture
- Uneven
- Hardness
- 5.5
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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