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Bario-orthojoaquinite & Joaquinite Ce & Neptunite

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Bario-orthojoaquinite & Joaquinite Ce & Neptunite

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Description
Locality: 
Benitoite Mine, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

Full of brown joaquinite ce crystals, yellow bario orthojoaquinite crystals with sone black neptunite crystals on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bario-orthojoaquinite

Formula: 
(Ba,Sr)4Fe2Ti2[Si4O12]2O2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.CE.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
California State Gem Mine (Dallas Gem Mine; Benitoite Mine; Benitoite Gem Mine; Gem Mine), Dallas Gem Mine area, San Benito River headwaters area, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Neptunite

Formula: 
Na2KLi(Fe2+,Mn2+)2Ti2(Si8O24)
Strunz: 
9.EH.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland