Pinakiolite with Haussmanite
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Pinakiolite with Haussmanite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 5 x 3 x 2 cm - Miniature
- Formula
- (Mg,Mn2+)2(Mn3+,Sb5+)O2(BO3) (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden
Thin tabular or platy crystals of black to dark red Pinakiolite to 5mm in a white, granular Dolomite matrix. This a very good specimen showing typical Pinakiolite crystals and many shiny black equant crystals of Hausmannite. The locality, more specifically is the New Zeeland Shaft, as stated on label. The label also states that it originally was out of the Leif Y. Engman collection.
Old Minerals Unlimited label.
Type Locality
Pinakiolite
- Formula
- (Mg,Mn2+)2(Mn3+,Sb5+)O2(BO3)
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Tabular
- Cleavage
- Good, None, None
- Luster
- Adamantine - Metallic
- Color
- black
- Streak
- brown gray
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 6
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Don Phillips Collection
- Special Info
- Type Locality
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