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Desautelsite With Artinite

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Desautelsite With Artinite

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Description
Locality: 
Artinite Pit, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm
Description

Orange and well defined crystals of desautelsite in a serpetinite matrix, with acicular white artinite.

Ex. Johann Muizebelt specimen.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Desautelsite

Formula: 
Mg6Mn3+2(OH)16[CO3]·4H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.50
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Cedar Hill Quarry (Stoltzfuss Quarry), Fulton Township, State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Artinite

Formula: 
Mg2(CO3)(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dossi di Franscia (Franscia Mine; Franscia Mines; Franscia Quarries), Campo Franscia (Franscia), Lanzada, Lanterna Valley, Malenco Valley, Valtellina, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy

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