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Bokite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Monument #2 Mine, Yazzie Mesa, Apache County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Dark brown, almost black crystals of the rare vanadium mineral bokite from one of the few localities known worldwide.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bokite

Formula: 
(Al,Fe3+)1.3(V5+,V4+,Fe3+)8O20·7.4H2O
Strunz: 
4.HE.20
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Balasauskandyk V Deposit, Karatau Range, Southern Kazakhstan Province (Ongtüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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