TXF97CD5: This rare arsenate of sodium, calcium and magnesium displays an intense and uniform yellow color and crystalline appearance, on a rock matrix partially covered by Calcite which gives a beautiful color contrast. Also has small dark grains of Hausmannite.
The Berzeliite comes from the type locality for the species, the Långban metamorphic manganese-iron deposit with its very complex skarns and pegmatites, which has provided a whopping 78 type localities of mineral species.
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland Sweden
Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 2.40” × 1.65” × 1.46”
Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”
Type locality
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