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Goethite

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Description
Locality: 
Friedrichssegen Mine, Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

Very nice, brown to black gothite-/liminite-stalactite. The specimen is a foater. Greenish micro-crystals could be ramsbeckite, devilline, schulenbergite, namuwite or maybe cuprian adamite ...?

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Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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