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Butlerite

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Description
Locality: 
Herzog Julius Smelter Slag Locality, Astfeld, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.3 × 0.5 cm
Description

Orange red butlerite in cavities. Beautiful!

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Butlerite

Formula: 
Fe3+(SO4)(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DC.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
United Verde Mine (The Big Hole; Big Hole property; Hull Mine; Hopewell tunnel; Patented claim 3480; Patented claim 2812; Patented claims 3348), Jerome, Verde District, Black Hills (Black Hill Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA