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Chlorothionite

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Chlorothionite

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Description
Locality: 
Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

rich specimen with some crystalline yellow-green aggregates of the rare chlorotionite on matrix.

c. 1861

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chlorothionite

Formula: 
K2Cu(SO4)Cl2
Strunz: 
7.BC.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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