Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Shlykovite & Cryptophyllite

Views:
Watches:
CSL182890

Shlykovite & Cryptophyllite

IMA2008-062
New Mineral type

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Tsentral'nyi Mine, Rasvumchorr Mountain, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm
Description

This is a rare piece with two new species from Kola. Cryptophyllite and Shlykovite are Ca and K bearing phyllosilicate species, both species occurs as an intimate intergrowth of pearly lamellas on aegirine and lamprophyllite matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shlykovite

Formula: 
KCa[Si4O9(OH)]·3H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tsentral'nyi mine (Centralnyi Mine; Central Mine), Rasvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Cryptophyllite

Formula: 
K2Ca[Si4O10]·5H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tsentral'nyi mine (Centralnyi Mine; Central Mine), Rasvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...
Loranth Minerals

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps