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Pellyite Titantaramellite & Gillespite

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Pellyite Titantaramellite & Gillespite

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Description
Locality: 
Esquire #7 Claim, Big Creek, Fresno County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.4 × 2.4 cm
Description

Pale brown glassy pellyite with red brown titantaramellite and red gillespite ; it comes with an old label

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pellyite

Formula: 
Ba2Ca(Fe,Mg)2Si6O17
Strunz: 
9.DO.10
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Gun claim (Gunn claim), Wilson Lake, Itsi Mt., Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

Titantaramellite

Formula: 
Ba4(Ti,Fe3+,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Strunz: 
9.CE.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Trumbull Peak Ba-silicate deposit, Trumbull Peak, Clearing House, Clearing House District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

Gillespite

Formula: 
BaFe2+[Si4O10]
Strunz: 
9.EA.05
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Dry Delta, Alaska Range, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska, USA