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Bauxite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Eleusis Mine, Elevsís, West Attica, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
52.00gr
Description

Ore sample: Bauxite is not exactly one of the prettiest minerals at all, although it is the major ore of aluminum. It is an amorphous mixture of oxydes and hydroxides, stained by iron oxydes.The Eleusis mine in Greece is an aluminum mine in bauxite ore. It is still working.

Comes with a newer Krantz label dated to the 70's or 80's.
As of 2003, in terms of value of production, bauxite was the most important of Greece’s mineral commodities. Greece was the leading producer of bauxite, magnesium, nickel, and perlite in the EU.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bauxite

Mixture Of: 

Böhmite

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.15
Hardness: 
3.5

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0

Gibbsite

Formula: 
Al(OH)3
Strunz: 
4.FE.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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