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Chlorothionite & Pseudolyonsite

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Chlorothionite & Pseudolyonsite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Yadovitaya Fumarole, Second Scoria Cone, Great Fissure, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

Chlorothionite is a two locality K-Cu-sulfate-chloride mineral, occurs as small blue-green crystals on matrix in association with grey prismatic pseudolyonsite and red, very fine needles of a yet unnammed lyonsite like mineral. Very interesting and very unique mineralization.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chlorothionite

Formula: 
K2Cu(SO4)Cl2
Strunz: 
7.BC.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Pseudolyonsite

Formula: 
Cu3(VO4)2
Strunz: 
8.AB.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...
Loranth Minerals

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