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Goethite & Lavendulan

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Goethite & Lavendulan

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Description
Locality: 
Ambed #3 Mine, Ambed, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.6 × 2 cm
Description

Dolomite matrix with a vug lined with light pink dolomite crystals with two generations of goethite. One as brown balls and the other as clusters of nice golden brown crystals. Dotted across the vug are light blue/ green spheres of possible lavendulan.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Lavendulan

Formula: 
NaCaCu5(AsO4)4Cl·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DG.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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