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Rruffite & Mansfieldite

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Rruffite & Mansfieldite

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Description
Locality: 
Jote Mine, Pampa Larga, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.1 × 1.3 cm
Description

specimen with some beautiful tufts of sky-blue or light greenish crystals of rruffite with associate botroidal groups of lamellar nansfieldite on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rruffite

Formula: 
Ca2Cu(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.10
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Maria Catalina mine, Pampa Larga district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

Mansfieldite

Formula: 
AlAsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hobart Butte, Black Butte District, Lane Co., Oregon, USA

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