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Sabieite & Clairite

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Sabieite & Clairite

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Description
Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls Cave, Sabie, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with with unusual pseudomorphs of sabieite after an unknown hexagonal mineral with yellow cores of clairite. Type locality for both these unusual ammonium sulfates. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sabieite

Formula: 
(NH4)Fe3+(SO4)2
Strunz: 
7.AC.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls cave, Sabie, Pilgrim's Rest, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa...

Clairite

Formula: 
(NH4)2Fe3(SO4)4(OH)3·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.55
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls cave, Sabie, Pilgrim's Rest, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa...

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