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Niobophyllite

ex Uli Bahmann
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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm
Description

This outstanding three dimensional 3cm niobophyllite specimen features aesthetics that is generally amiss as far as I have come to understand from my investigations into the mineral.

Typically what I have found is very ordinary consisting of featureless elongated flakes. Here you have a broad wulfenite like crystal bade leaning up against a number of smaller versions exhibiting precisely the same morphology.

Nothing that I have seen so far comes close to this, with sharply  beveled edges, thick mass with broad tabled surfaces.

This specimen is undamaged.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Niobophyllite

Formula: 
(K,Na)3(Fe,Mn)6(Nb,Ti)2Si8(O,OH,F)31
Strunz: 
9.DC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mann 2 (Ten Mile Lake), Seal Lake alkaline complex (Letitia Lake), Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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