Description
This mineral contains roughly 12% Scandium, 5% Beryl, 3% Aluminum, 30% Silicon, and 50% Oxygen, according to webmineral. While this rock comes from its type locality, there are an additional 54 known locations where it has been found – one in Missouri, one in Connecticut, four in New Hampshire, and the two known locations on Mount Antero and Mount White within Colorado. It has a hardness of 6½ – 7 and a specific gravity of 2.77 – 2.8.
According to Mindat, Bazzite is “typically found as small to tiny hexagonal crystals with a deep blue or blue-green color. Hard to distinguish from beryl. The blue color is caused by appreciable iron contents, and, more specifically, the intensity of the blue color by the ratio between Fe2+ and Fe3+ (Taran et al., 2017).”
According to Wikipedia, “it is hard to distinguish from blue beryl. Occurs in miarolitic cavities in granite, in alpine veins and in scandium bearing granitic pegmatites. It occurs associated with quartz, orthoclase, muscovite, laumontite, albite, hematite, calcite, chlorite, fluorite, beryl and bavenite. It was first described from an occurrence in Baveno, Italy. Named after the discoverer, the Italian engineer Alessandro E. Bazzi.”
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