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Hoelite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

Straw yellow, acicular crystal of this rare organic mineral. Here with colorless, lamellar ravatie and yellow sulphur. It forms during a coal dump burning.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hoelite

Formula: 
C14H8O2
Strunz: 
10.CA.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Pyramiden Coal Mine, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway