What is "canavesite"

n. (context mineral English) A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing boron, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.

Canavesite, Mg(HBO)(CO)∙5HO, is a rare carboborate mineral from the abandoned Brosso mine in Italy. Canavesite is a secondary mineral that occurs due to the weathering of ludwigite-magnetite skarn on the surface of mine walls. The physical properties consist of milky-white rosette-like aggregates of elongated transparent fibers shown in figure one. It has the crystal symmetry of a monoclinic with a diffraction symbol of 2/mP-/-.