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Picropharmacolite

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Picropharmacolite

New find! SEM-EDS & P-XRD analysed material

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm
Description

New find! SEM-EDS & P-XRD analysed picropharmacolite from a find made during the year 2000. Other minerals associated are pyrite, dolomite and (realgar). Analysis attached. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Picropharmacolite

Formula: 
Ca4Mg(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Needles and encrustations
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ore dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süss, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Picropharmacolite
Analysis Report - only: Picropharmacolite
Analysis Report - only: Picropharmacolite