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Mukhinite

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Mukhinite

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Description
Locality: 
Hale Creek Mine, Trinity County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.5 × 0.6 cm
Description

This extremely rare Vanadium-Silicate of the Epidote group occurs here as olive green crystals, intergrown to small crystal aggregates, on cavities on pinkish Inesite matrix.

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Mukhinite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2V3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05
Hardness: 
8.0
Type Locality: 
Tashelginskoye Fe-(Co) deposit, Tashelga River, Gornaya Shoria Region, Kemerovskaya Oblast', Western-Siberian Region, Russia...