Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Chrysothallite & Chlorothionite

Views:
Watches:
GMN169042

Chrysothallite & Chlorothionite

IMA no. 2013-008
Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Glavnaya Tenoritovaya Fumarole, Second Scoria Cone, Great Fissure, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm
Description

The chrysothallite forms small golden-yellow lustrous crystals on volcanic scoria, and the chlorothionite forms pale blue crystal cluster of elongated tabular crystals. Rich specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrysothallite

Formula: 
K6Cu6Tl3+Cl17(OH)4·H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Pyatno fumarole (Spot), Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Chlorothionite

Formula: 
K2Cu(SO4)Cl2
Strunz: 
7.BC.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps