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Picropharmacolite

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Picropharmacolite

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Description
Locality: 
Ste Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm
Description

Sprays of snow-white picropharmacolite needles on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Picropharmacolite

Formula: 
Ca4Mg(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Needles and encrustations
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ore dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süss, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany