Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Picropharmacolite

Views:
Watches:
CR107682

Picropharmacolite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Bauhaus, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 7.5 × 3 cm
Description

A very attractve and rich picropharmacolite specimen from the type locality.

Beautiful white sprays of picropharmacolite on a bed of pale pink erythrite, microcrystals of sainfeldite and minor weilite.

Very attractive old time specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Picropharmacolite

Formula: 
Ca4Mg(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Needles and encrustations
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ore dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süss, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany