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Asselbornite

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Asselbornite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher Vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm
Description

First class specimen with some orange blocky asselbornite crystals individually formed as well as aggregated into a sphere. Associated with light yellow trögerite. Optically bautiful. Very rare mineral.

Type locality for both specimen. Asselbornite is only known from three localities worldwide.

From the collection of Luc VANDENBERGHE, longtime mindat member and famous Belgian u-mineral collector. Specimen of a very well kept collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Asselbornite

Formula: 
Pb(BiO)3(UO2)4(AsO4)2(OH)7·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.ED.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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