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Omsite & Bottinoite

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Omsite & Bottinoite

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Description
Locality: 
Correc d'en Llinassos, Oms, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm
Description

Several yellow, tiny, rounded omsite crystals with green bottinoite on ullmannite; self collected on 2013

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Omsite

Formula: 
Ni2Fe3+(OH)6[Sb(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FB.
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Correc d'en Llinassos (Ravin d'en Llinassous), Oms, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France...

Bottinoite

Formula: 
Ni2+[Sb(OH)6]2·6H2O
Strunz: 
4.FH.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Bottino Mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy