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Jarosite

Former collection Christian Mavris
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Description
Locality: 
Skouriotissa Mine, Skouriotissa, Nicosia District, Cyprus
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

Brown red crystals of very lustrous jarosite fully coating a speck of limonite matrix. Exceptionally rich thumbnail, rather unusual from the locality, it also shows great contrast due to a white clayey mineral, which I suspect being nontronite.
Excellent.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jarosite

Formula: 
KFe3+ 3(SO4)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BC.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Pyramidal Class
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Jaroso Ravine, Sierra Almagrera, Cuevas del Almanzora (Cuevas de Vera), Almería, Andalusia, Spain

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