Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Römerite Coquimbite Halotrichite Copiapite & Voltaite

Views:
Watches:
SCH45156

Römerite Coquimbite Halotrichite Copiapite & Voltaite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Rio Tinto Mines, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm
Description

Superb lustrous deep caramel-brown römerite crystals host several species, hairy white halotrichite dotted with yellow copiapite, bright voltaite and specially interesting, several clusters of deep violet coquimbite.

Beautiful under the scope, this is a wonderful array from this locality!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Römerite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(SO4)4·14H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.75
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Rammelsberg Mine, Rammelsberg, Goslar, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Coquimbite

Formula: 
Fe2-xAlx(SO4)3·9H2O, x ~0.5
Strunz: 
7.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Coquimbo Region, Chile

Halotrichite

Formula: 
FeAl2(SO4)4·22H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.85
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Streak: 
White

Copiapite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2·20H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.35
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

Voltaite

Formula: 
K2Fe2+5Fe3+3Al(SO4)12·18H2O
Strunz: 
7.CC.25
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli, Phlegrean Fields, Naples Province, Phlegrean Volcanic Complex, Campania, Italy
schani

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps