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Kapellasite

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Kapellasite

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Locality: 
Herzog Julius Smelter Slag Locality, Astfeld, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

Very pale blue-whitish fibrous crystals of the very rare mineral kapellasite (IMA 2005-009), a copper zinc hydroxyl chloride known from only two localities worldwide ! Associated blue mineral is boleite.

Mineral Data
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Kapellasite

Formula: 
Cu3Zn(OH)6Cl2
Strunz: 
3.DA.10c
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sounion Mine No. 19 ("Chloridstollen"), Sounion Mines, Sounion area, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece...

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