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Copiapite & Römerite

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Copiapite & Römerite

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

specimen with some beautiful aggregates of yellow crystals of copiapite with associate fantastic orange crystals of romerite on matrix.

c. 7800

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copiapite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2·20H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.35
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

Römerite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(SO4)4·14H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.75
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Rammelsberg Mine, Rammelsberg, Goslar, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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