Discovery Team
Evgeny V. Galuskin
Biljana Krüger
Irina O. Galuskina
Hannes Krüger
Yevgeny Vapnik

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Aravaite

Verified October 2018   

Ba2Ca18(SiO4)6(PO4)3(CO3)F3O

Aravaite was found near the Arava Valley, after which it is named. Arava, or Arabah, is a desert south of the Dead Sea basin, which forms part of the border between Israel and Jordan. Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 4960/1.

Read more in Of Meteorites and Mines.

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Scanning electron microscope/back-scatter detector image of aravaite by Irina Galuskina (Colorized).

Scanning electron microscope/back-scatter detector image of aravaite by Irina Galuskina.

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In this scanning electron microscope/back-scatter detector image of aravaite by Irina Galuskina, you can see aravaite crystal in a spurrite matrix.

cc 2019. Carbon Mineral Challenge.