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Metavoltine Clairite & Rostite

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Metavoltine Clairite & Rostite

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Description
Locality: 
Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Rich specimen with lots of yellow metavoltine. Inbetween the metavoltine are shiny brown clairite micro crystals. The white material has earlier been analysed as rostite. Found by seller in 2005.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metavoltine

Formula: 
Na6K2FeFe6(SO4)12O2·18H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.35
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Zagh Mine (Tangeh Zagh mine; Madeni Zakh), Haji Abad town, Bandar Abbas (Bandar-e Abbas), Bandar-Abbas County, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Clairite

Formula: 
(NH4)2Fe3(SO4)4(OH)3·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.55
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls cave, Sabie, Pilgrim's Rest, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa...

Rostite

Formula: 
Al(SO4)(OH)·5H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kladno Mine (Nejedlý I Mine; Zdeněk Nejedlý Mine; Schoeller Mine; Schöller Mine), Libušin, Kladno, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
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