calciborite
Sign in to saveCalciborite, CaB2O4, is a rare calcium borate mineral.
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Vinony files it under Calcium minerals, Geology of Russia and Inoborates.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- Vc/C.01
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Cbo
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 6.BC.10
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 6.BC.10
- chemical formula
- CaB₂O₄
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Calciborite, CaB2O4, is a rare calcium borate mineral.
It was first described in 1955 in the Novofrolovskoye copper–boron deposit, near Krasnoturinsk, Turinsk district, Northern Ural Mountains, Russia. It occurs in a skarn deposit formed in limestone adjacent to a quartz diorite intrusive. It occurs associated with: sibirskite (another rare calcium borate mineral), calcite, dolomite, garnet, magnetite and pyroxene. It has also been reported from the Fuka mine of Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
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