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Bokite

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Description
Locality: 
North Wilson Pit, Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 4.7 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large and very rich sample with hundreds of clusters of bokite on novaculite matrix from the Union Carbide Mine. This represents the finest known find of the species and was recently PXRD confirmed by Tony Kampf. 

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Bokite

Formula: 
(Al,Fe3+)1.3(V5+,V4+,Fe3+)8O20·7.4H2O
Strunz: 
4.HE.20
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Balasauskandyk V Deposit, Karatau Range, Southern Kazakhstan Province (Ongtüstik Qazaqstan Oblysy; Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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