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Witzkeite & Dittmarite

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Witzkeite & Dittmarite

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Description
Locality: 
Lobos Mine, Punta de Lobos, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.2 × 0.2 × 0.1 cm
Description

Small but very interesting sample of Witzkeite, a new and extremely rare new mineral (IMA 2011-084) present in this specimen as colorless elongated tabular crystals associated to white tabular Dittmarite (also a very rare mineral only found in 4 localities worldwide) in a matrix of Aphthitalite, Nitratine and Halite.
Witzkeite has only been found in this locality worldwide, so it is a real rarity.
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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Witzkeite

Formula: 
Na4K4Ca(NO3)2(SO4)4·2H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Punta de Lobos, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile

Dittmarite

Formula: 
(NH4)Mg(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...
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