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SEKANINAITE - Dolní Bory, Czech Republic | TL- type locality | SYSTEMATIC | 57 x 38 x 36 mm

Sekaninaite, Czech Republic, Miniature (3-6 cm)
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Mineral: SEKANINAITE
Locality: Dolní Bory, Bory, Žďár nad Sázavou District, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic (type locality)
Dimension (mm): 57 x 38 x 36 mm
Weight (gr): 68 gram

Description / Notes: A glassy crystalline mass specimen suitable as a representative for a collection of systematics. Sekaninaite forms blue-violet glassy to matte imperfect crystals. It is formed magmatic in granitic pegmatites or granites, metamorphic in gneisses and migmatites. This is a specimen from the type locality Dolní Bory, other occurrences are on Elba in Italy.


  • Formula:(Fe,Mg)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
  • Colour:grayish-blue to bluish-violet
  •  Lustre:Vitreous
  • Hardness:7 - 7½
  • Specific Gravity:2.76 - 2.77
  • Crystal System:Orthorhombic
  • Name:Named in honor of Josef Sekanina (4 September 1901, Knínice u Boskovic - 28 November 1986, Letovice), Czech mineralogist who first found the mineral.
  • Type Locality:Pegmatite vein No. 4, Dolní Bory, Bory, Žďár nad Sázavou District, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic
  • IMA Status: Approved IMA 1975


Further information in mineralogy databases

Classification:
  • 9.Silicates
Mineral name:
  • Sekaninaite
Country origine:
Czech Republic
Specimen size:
Miniature (3-6 cm)

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