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Bakhchisaraitsevite

Mineral:

Bakhchisaraitsevite: Na2Mg5(PO4)4·7(H2O)

Comments:

Crystals of beige-colored bakhchisaraitsevite crystals in hydrothermal assemblage with colorless bobierrite on dolomite from a cavity in a deformed vein of dolomite carbonatite (CanMin, v 38, p 832).

Location:

Kovdor Phosphorite-Carbonatite complex, Russia.

Scale:

See Image.

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