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Chlorbartonite

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Chlorbartonite

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Description
Locality: 
Koashva Mountain, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Very rare sulfide-halide mineral Chlorbartonite from the Type- and only Locality. It forms bronzy brown metallic crystals on black sphalerite. Associated minerals are red-brown lath like astrophyllite and natrolite. Very unique mineralization.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chlorbartonite

Formula: 
K6Fe24S26(Cl,S)
Strunz: 
2.FC.10
Hardness: 
4.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koashva quarry, Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...
Loranth Minerals

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