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Borcarite with CAHNITE

Unknown Owner
Parallel, stacked tabular Borcarite prisms form intergrown books of dirty leaf green to bright bluish peppermint green crystals from the tin-iron skarn-type deposit at Huanggang at Hexigten Banner in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. The Borcarite, a calcium magnesium borate carbonate, is not attached to any matrix and sitting on it is the occasional, pale bluish crystal of the rare mineral Cahnite, a calcium borate containing arsenic. A splendid small miniature of two rare minerals from the Huanggang Fe-Sn Deposit.\n

Product details

Species
Borcarite
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm
Added on12/02/2024
Locality
China, Inner Mongolia, Shijiangshan Mine

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
01/2026Unknown Owner$500.00
—Crystal ClassicsNot disclosed

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