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Formula: KCa3(Al7Si9)O32
Tectosilicate (framework silicate)
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Specific gravity: 2.694 calculated
Hardness: 6
Colour: Whitish to colourless
Environments
Wodegongjieite is a new mineral, approved in 2020 and to date (March 2023) reported only from the type locality.
Localities
At the type locality, Orebody CR-11, Kangjinla Cr deposit, Luobusha ophiolite, Qusum county, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet,
China, wodegongjieite occurs in the chromitite orebody. It is
found in two inclusions in corundum:
(1) as a partial overgrowth (holotype) up to 1.5 μm thick around a spheroid 20 μm across of
wenjiite, kangjinlaite,
zhiqinite and badengzhuite,
and
(2) as pools up to 0.25 μm wide filling interstices between wenjiite,
jingsuiite,
osbornite–khamrabaevite and
corundum
(MM 86.6.975-987).
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