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Tunisite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Condorcet, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm
Weight: 
87.00gr
Description

Rounded aggregates of translucent, colourless, razor-sharp tabular crystals of tunisite richly covering the cavities and partially covered by yellowish calcite scalenohedrons and minor snow-white acicular celestine.

Ex Rik Dillen specimen.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tunisite

Formula: 
NaCa2Al4(CO3)4(OH)8Cl
Strunz: 
5.BB.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sidi Youssef Mine, Sakiet Sidi Youssef (Saqiyat Sidi Yusuf), Al Kåf Governorate (El Kef; Le Kef), Tunisia

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