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Shulamitite & Ye'elimite

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CAM154067

Shulamitite & Ye'elimite

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Locality: 
Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

Shulamitite is a newly approved calcium-titanium-iron-aluminium-oxide named after Israeli geologist Dr Shulamit Gross.
The specimen has some small red brown grains of shulamitite associated with some colourless-white ye'elimite on matrix.
Ex Jaroslav Hyrsl specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shulamitite

Formula: 
Ca3TiFe3+AlO8
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Hatrurim (Hatrurim Basin), Negev, Israel

Ye'elimite

Formula: 
Ca4Al6(SO4)O12
Strunz: 
7.BC.15
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Har Ye'elim, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel...
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