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Onoratoite Valentinite & Sulphur

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Onoratoite Valentinite & Sulphur

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Description
Locality: 
Le Cetine di Cotorniano Mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm
Description

White tufts of onoratoite crystals with rounded sulfur crystals, transparent valentinite crystals and very minor stibnite and other secondaries. An interesting assemblage of several species from this well-known locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Onoratoite

Formula: 
Sb8Cl2O11
Strunz: 
3.DC.80
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Le Cetine di Cotorniano Mine (Le Cetine Mine; Cetine Mine; Rosia), Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy

Valentinite

Formula: 
Sb2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Les Chalanches Mine, Allemont, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France

Sulphur

Formula: 
S8
Strunz: 
1.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
schani

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