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Rosiaite Clinocervantite Valentinite & Tripuhyite

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Rosiaite Clinocervantite Valentinite & Tripuhyite

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Description
Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceptional small sample with fantastic groups of yellow, hexagonal rosiaite crystals in clusters and interesting chains. Associated with green needles of clinocervantite, white needles of valentinite, darker green tripuhyite and tiny brown octahedrons of bindheimite. A very rich sample formerly in the Luigi Chiappino and William Henderson colletions. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rosiaite

Formula: 
PbSb5+2O6
Strunz: 
4.DH.25
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy

Clinocervantite

Formula: 
Sb3+Sb5+O4
Strunz: 
4.DE.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy

Valentinite

Formula: 
Sb2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Les Chalanches Mine, Allemont, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France

Tripuhyite

Formula: 
Fe3+Sb5+O4
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Tripuí (Tripuhy), Main district, Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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