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Pringleite & Sylvite

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Pringleite & Sylvite

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Description
Locality: 
PCS Mine, Penobsquis, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm
Description

Orangish crystals of the very rare calcium borate mineral pringleite associated to colorless sylvite from the TL for pringleite.

Pringleite has only been found worldwide in three very close localities in New Brunswick, canada.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pringleite

Formula: 
Ca9B26O34(OH)24Cl4·13H2O
Strunz: 
6.GD.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Mine (PCS Mine; Potash Corporation of America Mine), Penobsquis, Cardwell Parish, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada

Sylvite

Formula: 
KCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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