Tikhvinite

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Name:	After the locality at the Tikhvin District, Russia.

An ill-defined material described as a basic sulphate-phosphate of strontium and aluminum. Close to Svanbergite in composition.

Originally described from Tikhvin, Leningradskaya Oblast', North-Western Region, Russia.

Classification of Tikhvinite
IMA status:	Not Approved
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Health Warning:	No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.
References for Tikhvinite
Reference List: - +	Ansheless and Vlodavetz (1927) Mineralogicheskoe Obshchestvo, Leningrad, Zapiski: (2) 56: 53. Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale Palache, C., Berman, H., & University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 1006.
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Russia

North-Western Region

Leningradskaya Oblast'

Tikhvin

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1006.

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