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Lafossaite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Outstandimg cubic crystals of the extremely rare thallium mineral lafossaite from the type and one of the only four localities known worldwide.

Lafossaite is a thallium chloride-bromide. Bromine minerals are extremely rare in Nature, Of more than 5000 minerals known, only 17 have bromine in its composition, and this is one of them! (source MINDAT).

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lafossaite

Formula: 
Tl(Cl,Br)
Strunz: 
3.AA.25
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

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