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Amarantite & Lesukite

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Amarantite & Lesukite

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Description
Locality: 
Kavir-e-Sagand, Saghand, Yazd Province, Iran
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm
Description

Masses of intergrown amarantite crystals that spray in to small cavities in places with colourless crystal balls of lesukite and an unknown yellow mineral. Specimen from Williams collection #1033, dates to the early  to mid 1970's

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amarantite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(SO4)2O·7H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Caracoles, Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

Lesukite

Renamed To: 

Cadwaladerite

Formula: 
Al5(H2O)3(OH)12·n(Cl,H2O)
Strunz: 
3.BD.05
Formula: 
Al2Cl(OH)5·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.BD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...
Earthstones Australia

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