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Betafite

Ex. Luc Vandenberghe Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Silver Crater Mine, Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Description

This is a first-class and absolutely stunning specimen with lots of well-formed and undamaged cubo-octahedrons of dark brown betafite crystals. The crystals show a clear habitus and reaches to a crystal size of 1.6 centimetres. Lots of these well-formed crystals forming this cluster-specimen.

This is a show case specimen of high quality. Rarely offered and optically awesome.

Comes from a classic Canadian deposit.

From the collection of Luc VANDENBERGHE, longtime mindat member and famous Belgian u-mineral collector. Specimen of a very well kept collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Betafite

Synonym Of: 

Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)

Formula: 
(Ca,U)2(Ti,Nb)2O6(OH)
Strunz: 
4.DH.15
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.5

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