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Devitoite & Titantaramellite

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Devitoite & Titantaramellite

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Description
Locality: 
Esquire #8 Claim, Rush Creek, Fresno County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 1.9 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a thumbnail sample with several sprays of rare devitoite crystals embedded in quartz with rich brown crystals of titantaramellite from the type locality for devitoite. Collected by Bob Walstrom. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Devitoite

Formula: 
[Ba6(PO4)2(CO3)][Fe2+7(OH)4Fe3+2O2(Si4O12)2]
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Esquire No. 8 claim (Lander's Gillespite locality), Big Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Big Creek-Rush Creek District, Fresno Co., California, USA...

Titantaramellite

Formula: 
Ba4(Ti,Fe3+,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Strunz: 
9.CE.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Trumbull Peak Ba-silicate deposit, Trumbull Peak, Clearing House, Clearing House District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

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