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Lesukite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Santo Domingo Mine, Caleta Victor District, Arica Province, Arica & Parinacota Region, Chile
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm
Description

specimen with some fantastic brilliant yellw-green aggregates of the rare lesukite on matrix from a new occorrence for the mineral

Named after Grigorii Ivanovich Lesuke (1935–1995), technical worker in the Department of Crystallography, University of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lesukite

Renamed To: 

Cadwaladerite

Formula: 
Al5(H2O)3(OH)12·n(Cl,H2O)
Strunz: 
3.BD.05
Formula: 
Al2Cl(OH)5·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.BD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

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