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Zirconolite & Tungusite

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Zirconolite & Tungusite

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Description
Locality: 
Terra do Baptista, Porto da Cruz, Machico, Madeira Islands, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Very good (for the locality) zirconolite sample with several pinkish brown crystals associated to yellow/green tungusite.

Collected: 
2021
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zirconolite

Formula: 
CaZrTi2O7
Strunz: 
4.DH.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhomibic, Monclinic, Trigonal, Metamict
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Afrikanda Massif, Afrikanda, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Tungusite

Formula: 
Ca4Fe2Si6O15(OH)6
Strunz: 
9.EE.30
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tura, Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin (Lower Tunguska River), Evenkia (Evenkiyskiy Autonomous okrug), Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krasnoyarsk Kray; Krasnoyarskii Krai), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia