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Bellingerite

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Description
Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm
Description

wonderful specimen with some fantastic greenish well-formed crystals of the extremely rare copper iodate bellingerite on matrix from the type and only locality.

from personal collection Luigi Chiappino

Mineral Data
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Bellingerite

Formula: 
Cu3(IO3)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.KC.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

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