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Alfredopetrovite

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Description
Locality: 
El Dragón Mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 0.7 × 0.3 cm
Description

White globular aggregates and a few acicular crystals of the extremely rare new selenium mineral alfredopetrovite (IMA 2015-026)  from the type and only known locality worldwide, the famous mine of El Dragon in Bolivia. The mineral is associated to pink ahlfeldite crystals and blue chalcomenite, the whole in a matrix of penroseite.

See the attached label with the data from the original discovery. The mineral is named after the famous mineralogist and mineral dealer Alfredo Petrov.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Alfredopetrovite

Formula: 
Al2(Se4+O3)3·6H2O
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Type Locality: 
El Dragón Mine, Potosí Department, Bolivia

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