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Prosopite

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Description
Locality: 
Inca Mine, Colquiri, Inquisivi Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm
Description

Colourless SEM-EDS & Raman confirmed prosopite on fluorite-galena matrix. 

Analysis attached. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Prosopite

Formula: 
CaAl2(F,OH)8
Strunz: 
3.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Tin mine, Altenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany