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Pucherite & Clinobisvanite

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Pucherite & Clinobisvanite

Ex Klaus Petitjean collection

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Description
Locality: 
Hohenstein, Reichenbach, Odenwald, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

An excellent sample from the Petitjean collection with well-formed tabular brown pucherite crystals and smaller blocky clinobisvanite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pucherite

Formula: 
Bi(VO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.40
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Pucher Shaft, Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Clinobisvanite

Formula: 
Bi(VO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.65
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kempton Brothers Beryl Mine (Arthur River South pegmatite; Tobin Well pegmatite; Marloo No2 pegmatite; Marloo Well No2 pegmatite), Yinnietharra (Yinnietharra Station; Yinnetharra), Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Cartils Minerals

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