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Fahleite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.5 × 0.2 cm
Description

One big (for the species!) single green crystal of fahleite (a Zn-Ca-Fe arsenate), an extremely rare Tsumeb mineral only known from this locality worldwide, which is of course the type locality.

The species was labeled as RRR! in Gebhard Tsumeb II book (single specimen !).

Ex. Erich Laskowski collection (USA) .

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fahleite

Formula: 
Zn5CaFe2(AsO4)6·14H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.55
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

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