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Carminite

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Description
Locality: 
Alto das Quelhas do Gestoso Mine, Gestoso, São Pedro do Sul, Viseu District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.8 × 2.7 cm
Description

This is a fantastic carminite specimen from Portugal. Deep red to red-brown carminte sprays and hedgehogs in several vugs of the quartz matrix with white scorodite crystals and yellow segnitite microcrystals.

Very rich and very good old specimen - collected 1988

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carminite

Formula: 
PbFe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BH.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Louise Mine, Bürdenbach, Altenkirchen, Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany