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Canavesite Inderite & Dypingite

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Canavesite Inderite & Dypingite

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Description
Locality: 
Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

Nice and quite good example of white canavesite (type locality) acicular crystals and aggregates with whitish inderite spherules and dypingite on matrix. I got this one about 15 years ago from a MM specialist.

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Canavesite

Formula: 
Mg2(HBO3)(CO3)·5H2O
Strunz: 
6.H0.50
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese District, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy

Inderite

Formula: 
MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O
Strunz: 
6.CA.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Deposit No. 7, Mt Kzyl-tau, Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau (Gur'yev), Atyrau Province (Atyrau Oblysy; Atyrau Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Dypingite

Formula: 
Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dypingdal Serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway

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