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Geigerite & Villyaellenite

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Geigerite & Villyaellenite

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Description
Locality: 
Săcărâmb, Deva, Hunedoara County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 0.4 cm
Description

White-pale lilac clusters of bladed crystals, and flesh coloured villyaellenite crystals on matrix.

Only a few specimen known,from the 1990's. one-time find.

I 've never seen such a beautiful geigerite appearance.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Geigerite

Formula: 
Mn2+5(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Oberhalbstein (Surses; Sursass), Albula Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland

Villyaellenite

Formula: 
MnMn2Ca2(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ste Marie-aux-Mines (Markirch), Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France

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