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Medaite - Molinello mine - Graveglia Valley - Ligury - Italy (Type Loc) (#:MINS7891)

Dark orange brilliant microcystals scattered on braunitic matrix.Medaite is a very rare species for which the Molinello mine is type locality. Ref: see MinRec Vol.32-Number 5 Sep-Oct 2001 pag. 369.

Formula :
(Mn2+,Ca)6[(V5+,As5+)Si5O_18_(OH)]
System: monoclinic Hardness:- Rarity:very rare
Strunz id:VIII/C.34-14 - SILICATES
Name origin: Named in 1981 by Carlo M. Gramaccioli, William L. Giffin, and Annibale Mottana in honor of Dr. Francesco Meda (1926 - 1977), an amateur mineralogist from Turin whose enthusiastic activity as a teacher has contributed to making mineralogy popular in Italy.

Specimen weight:9 gr.
Crystal size:micr.
Overall size: 40mm x 22 mm x 12 mm

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