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Ferronyböite

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Palos hill, Gria Spilia, Syros Island (Syra), Cyclade Islands (Cyclades; Kikladhes; Nomos Kikladhon), Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands (Aiyaíon) Department, Greece
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System:MonoclinicColour:Blue-grey
Lustre:VitreousHardness:5 - 6
Name:For its relationship to nyböite


Amphibole Group, Sodic Clino-Amphibole Subgroup

Classification of Ferronyböite

Nickel-Strunz 10th (pending) edition ID:9..

9 : SILICATES (Germanates)
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Physical Properties of Ferronyböite

Lustre:Vitreous
Colour:Blue-grey
Hardness (Mohs):5 - 6
Cleavage:Perfect
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Crystallography of Ferronyböite

Crystal System:Monoclinic

Relationship of Ferronyböite to other Species

Related Minerals - Nickel-Strunz Grouping):

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9..Alumino-ferrowinchite
9..Paraspurrite
9..Zinnwaldite
KLiFe
2+
 
Al(AlSi
 
3
O
 
10
)(F,OH)
 
2
9..Gismondine
9..Shkatulkalite
9..IMA2007-015
K[CaNa][Fe
2+
3
Al
 
2
][(OH)
 
2
|Al
 
2
Si
 
6
O
 
22
]
9..IMA 2008-041
9..IMA2009-059
9..IMA2009-091

Other Names for Ferronyböite

Other Languages:
German:Ferronyböit
Spanish:Ferronyböita

Other Information

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 Ferronyböite

Reference List:

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Hawthorne, Frank C., and Roberta Oberti (2006), On the classification of amphiboles: Canadian Mineralogist:
44(1): 1-21.

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    • Localities for Ferronyböite

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    Canada
     
    • Québec
      • Montérégie
        • Rouville RCM
          • Mont Saint-Hilaire
    		www.saint-hilaire.ca/en/fronybo.htm.
    Italy
     
    • Piedmont
      • Cuneo Province
        • Dora Maira Massif
          • Varaita Valley
            • Brossasco
              • Gilba Valley
    		Piccoli, G.C., Maletto, G., Bosio, P., Lombardo, B. (2007). Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta. Associazione Amici del Museo "F. Eusebio" Alba, Ed., Alba (Cuneo) 607 pp.
    T. Hirajima and R. Compagnoni : "Petrology of a jadeite-quartz-almandine-phengite fels with retrograde ferro-nyböite from the Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps", Eur. Journ. Mineral., 1993, 5, pp 943-955.
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