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Pyracmonite & Szomolnokite

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Pyracmonite & Szomolnokite

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Description
Locality: 
Pécs-Vasas, Pécs, Mecsek Mountains, Baranya County, Hungary
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1 × 1.2 cm
Description

White-colourless needles and sprays of needles of pyracmonite, with clusters of hexagonal tabular crystals of szomolnokite in the matrix cavities. Rich and good quality specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyracmonite

Formula: 
(NH4)3Fe(SO4)3
Strunz: 
7.AC.08
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

Szomolnokite

Formula: 
FeSO4·H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Smolník (Schmöllnitz; Szomolnok), Gelnica Co., Košice Region, Slovakia

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