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Kapellasite & Serpierite

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Kapellasite & Serpierite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mina Casualidad, Baños de Alhamilla, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Description

Kapellasite is a veryrareCuZn-Chloride - usually known from slag locations.

This specimen comes from a historic mine in Andalucia, Spain.

Beautiful pale blue sprays of Kapellasite with minor darker blue Serpierite crystals on shist matrix.

With tiny green Ramsbeckite crystals and very small lenticular Gordaite crystals.

Rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kapellasite

Formula: 
Cu3Zn(OH)6Cl2
Strunz: 
3.DA.10c
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sounion Mine No. 19 ("Chloridstollen"), Sounion Mines, Sounion area, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece...

Serpierite

Formula: 
Ca(Cu,Zn)4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece