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Kukisvumite

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Kukisvumite

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Description
Locality: 
Kukisvumchorr Mountains, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 1 cm
Description

Outstanding sharp white prismatic kukisvumite crystals from the type and only known locality worldwide in Kukisvumur, and associated to lamprophyllite.

Kukisvumite crystals in this quality (photo 1) are very rarely seen in the mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kukisvumite

Formula: 
Na6ZnTi4(Si8O24)O4·4H2O
Strunz: 
9.DB.20
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Kirovskii apatite mine (Kirovsky Mine; Kirovskii Mine; Kirov Mine), Kukisvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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