kambaldaite

Noun

(uncountable)

(mineralogy) An extremely rare hexagonal hydrated sodium nickel carbonate mineral, light green or blue, that forms drusy to mammillated encrustations on the matrix.

Origin

Kambalda, Australia, where it was first described, and -ite.

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