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Babingtonite: Ca2(Fe++,Mn)Fe+++Si5O14(OH)
Comments: Small, single crystal of babingtonite on matrix. Location: Blueberry Mountain, Woburn. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Scale: Size Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Baddeleyite: ZrO2
Comments: Single crystal specimen of very rare baddeleyite pseudomorphing kimzeyite (garnet). Location: Perovskite Hill, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA. Scale: 0.9 X 1.0 cm. © John Veevaert
Bafertisite: Ba(Fe++,Mn)2TiSi2O7(O,OH)2 Calcybeborosilite-(Y): (REE,Ca)2[ ](B,Be)2(SiO4)2(OH,O)2
Comments: Greenish-gray calcybeborosilite-(Y) grain intergrow with orange bafertisite platelet (upper left corner of the later). Associatied minerals are violet fluorite, white albite, black aegirine, light-yellow (red under UV lamp) cleiophane. Location: Darai-Pioz (Dara-i-Pioz; Dara-Pioz) Glacier, Alai (Alayskiy) Range, Tien Shan Mts, Region of Republican Subordination, Tajikistan. Scale: Picture Size 12x10 mm. © Pavel M. Kartashov
Bafertisite: Ba(Fe++,Mn)2TiSi2O7(O,OH)2
Comments: Tan crystal spray of bafertisite in pegmatite. Location: Fountain Quarry, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Baghdadite: Ca3(Zr,Ti)Si2O9
Comments: A small, 0.01 cm, grain of baghdadite identifyable in the inset SW-UV image. Location: Fuka mine, Bitchu-cho, Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan. Scale: Picture Size 1 cm. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Bahianite: Al5Sb+++++3O14(OH)2
Comments: Rounded grain of bahianite. Location: Garimpo de Morro, Paramirim Region, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Bakerite: Ca4B4(BO4)(SiO4)3(OH)3·(H2O)
Comments: Porcelain-like, massive bakerite. Location: Twenty Mule Canyon, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Bakhchisaraitsevite: Na2Mg5(PO4)4·7(H2O)
Comments: Yellow-brown, platy or thin tabular crystals of bakhchisaraitsevite from an Iron mine. Red arrow indicates the mineral. Location: Kovdor massif, Kola peninsula, Russia. Scale: 5mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Comments: Crystals of beige-colored bakhchisaraitsevite crystals in hydrothermal assemblage with colorless bobierrite on dolomite from a cavity in a deformed vein of dolomite carbonatite (CanMin, v 38, p 832). Location: Kovdor Phosphorite-Carbonatite complex, Russia. Scale: See Image. © Nataly A. Pekova
Baksanite: Bi6Te2S3
Comments: Gray metallic grain of baksanite surrounded by white calcite. Location: Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, North Caucasus, Russia. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species