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Gajardoite & Torrecillasite

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Gajardoite & Torrecillasite

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Description
Locality: 
Torrecillas Mine, Salar Grande, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Description

specimen with some rounded beautiful white crystals of the rare gajardoite with some good needles of torrecillaste on matrix from the type locality.

c. 1302

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gajardoite

Formula: 
KCa0.5As43+O6Cl2 · 5H2O
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Torrecillas Mine, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Isostructural with: 
Lucabindiite

Torrecillasite

Formula: 
Na(As,Sb)3+4O6Cl
Hardness: 
2.5 - 0.0
Colour: 
Colorless
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Torrecillas mine, Salar Grande, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile

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