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Mandarinoite With Kerstenite & Krut'aite

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Mandarinoite With Kerstenite & Krut'aite

ex Ring collection, Munich,Germany

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Locality: 
El Dragón Mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

Mandarinoite is a rare selenate. Little vugs are filled with yellow-green mandarinoite. Accompanied by turquoise-blue kerstenite, in metallic grey krutaite. Also present: chalcomenite, klinochalcomenite, cobaltomenite. A good example for this quite exotic stuff!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mandarinoite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(SeO3)3·4H2O
Strunz: 
4.JH.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Virgen de Surumi mine (Pacajake mine; Pakajake mine), Pakajake Canyon (Pacajake Canyon), Chayanta Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia

Krut'aite

Formula: 
CuSe2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Petrovice, Nové Město na Moravě, Vysočina Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic

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