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Despujolsite

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Despujolsite

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Description
Locality: 
NChwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Yellow despujolsite crystals on matrix !. Despujolsite specimens are almost always single crystals without matrix, this one is just the contrary, sharp gemmy yellow despujolsite crystals on a matrix of andradite, clinochlore and octahedral hausmannite crystals. An aesthetic combination of 4 species !.

An excepcional specimen from a 1990 find.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Despujolsite

Formula: 
Ca3Mn4+(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Tachgagalt Mine, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco

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