Kampfite with Titantaramellite & Sanbornite
Kampfite with Titantaramellite & Sanbornite
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- Sold
- Size
- 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm - Miniature
- Formula
- Ba12(Si11Al5)O31(CO3)8Cl5 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Esquire #1 claim, Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California, United States
- Tagged
- carbonate
Blue crystalline masses of Kampfite to 3mm at the red arrows. Kampfite is an extremely rare mineral at these deposits and worldwide. It is associated with with brown crystals if Titantaramellite, platy cleavages of light green Sanbornite, and minor Bazirite. All are barium silicates. Kampfite is only found in Callifornia and Yukon, Canada.
Per Mindat: Named in 2001 by the authors: Laurel Christine Basciano, Lee A. Groat, Andrew C. Roberts, Joel D. Grice, Gail E. Dunning, Eugene E. Foord, Ingrid M. Kjarsgaard, and Robert E. Walstrom in honor of Dr Anthony Robert Kampf, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, for his many significant contributions to the study of new and rare minerals. He described and coauthored as of 2022 April, 319 new minerals.
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Type Locality, Signed Label
Kampfite
- Formula
- Ba12(Si11Al5)O31(CO3)8Cl5
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Irregular Grains
- Cleavage
- Good, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- light blue gray
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Monoclinic - Domatic
- Fracture
- Brittle - Uneven
- Hardness
- 3
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
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