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Formula: Be(OH)2
Hydroxide of beryllium, monoclinic
paramorph of orthorhombic behoite
Crystal System: Monoclinic
Specific gravity: 1.93 measured
Hardness: 2 to 3
Streak: White
Colour: Colourless
Environments
Pegmatites
Hydrothermal environments
Clinobehoite is formed by hydrothermal alteration of earlier formed
beryllium minerals
(Mindat).
Localities
At the type locality, the Malyshevskoe deposit, Izumrudnye Kopi area, Malyshevo, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia,
clinobehoite occurs in hydrothermally altered zones of desilicated
pegmatites, associated with
bavenite, bityite,
phillipsite, analcime and
albite
(AM 76, 666-667).
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