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Kettnerite

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Kettnerite

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Description
Locality: 
Cogolla Alta Mine, Belalcazar, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

Kettnerite is a rare CaBi-Carbonate.

This specimen hosts beautiful silky and pale yellow kettnerite crystals and crystal groups in a vug of the quartz matrix from a recently published locale in Southern Spain.

The recently published paper about the location is available for the buyer on request.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kettnerite

Formula: 
CaBiCO3OF
Strunz: 
5.BE.30
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Barbora adit, Knöttel area (Knötel; Knödel; Knödlberg), Krupka (Graupen), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Ústí Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic