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Ludwigite

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Ludwigite
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Ludwigite is a magnesium-iron borate mineral: Mg2FeBO5.

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Ludwigite typically occurs in magnesian iron skarn and other high temperature contact metamorphic deposits. It occurs in association with magnetite, forsterite, clinohumite and the borates vonsenite and szaibelyite.[3] It forms a solid solution series with the iron(II)-iron(III) borate mineral vonsenite.[2]

It was first described in 1874 for an occurrence in Ocna de Fier, Banat Mountains, Caraș-Severin County, Romania and named for Ernst Ludwig (1842–1915), an Austrian chemist at the University of Vienna.[2]

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Ludwigite needles and sprays as inclusions in a peridot crystal from Sapat Gali, Kohistan District, Pakistan. Size 2.8 x 2 x 1.1 cm.
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