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Nabalamprophyllite & Innelite

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Nabalamprophyllite & Innelite

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Description
Locality: 
Kovdor Phlogopite Mine, Kovdor Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

Nabalamprophyllite is a Na-Ba-Ti bearing silicate mineral, of laprophyllite group. It forms yellow-brown platy crystals and the Kovdor Mine is the second world occurence. The specimen consist an other rare Ba-Ti silicate species called innelite. it forms brown -purple platy crystals in radiating goup. The matrix is a mixture of K-feldspar, pestolite and diopside.

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Nabalamprophyllite

Formula: 
Na3(Ba,Na)2Ti3(Si2O7)2O2(OH,F)2
Strunz: 
9.BE.25
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Kovdor Phlogopite mine (Mica Mine; Slyuda Mine; Kovdorslyuda Shaft), Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Innelite

Formula: 
Na2CaBa4Ti3(Si2O7)2(SO4)2O4
Strunz: 
9.BE.40
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Shchelochnoi Spring, Yakokut Massif, Aldan, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
Loranth Minerals

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