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Shilovite & Ammineite

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Shilovite & Ammineite

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Description
Locality: 
Pabellon de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm
Description

specimen with many nice grains of intense violet shilovite into the colourless halite that preserve the shilovite from the oxidation , on the specimen there are also many beautiful crystalline aggregates of blue ammineite, the locality is the type locality for both the minerals.

photos taken at only 20/40 enlargements!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shilovite

Formula: 
Cu(NH3)4(NO3)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Pabellón de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile

Ammineite

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

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