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Ammineite

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Description
Locality: 
Pabellon de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

Bright blue botryoidal spheres and tiny crystals of the rare copper-chlorine-ammine ammineite on a colourless halite matrix and associated with some green atacamite. Very good for the species, from the discoverer's stock.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ammineite

Formula: 
[CuCl2(NH3)2]
Strunz: 
3.C0.
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Pabellón de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Cartils Minerals

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