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Nabokoite

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Nabokoite

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Description
Locality: 
Yadovitaya Fumarole, Second Scoria Cone, Great Fissure, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.08 × 0.07 cm
Description

Very rare orange nabokoite, Te bearing phase, on matrix from the Yadovitaya fumarole at the Tolbachik volcano. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nabokoite

Formula: 
KCu7(SO4)5(Te4+O3)OCl
Strunz: 
7.BC.20
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Yadovitaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...