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Mountkeithite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Canyon, Goat Mountain, New Idria, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm
Description

Brownish crystals of the rare mineral mountkeithite from one of the few known localities for the mineral.

Analyzed specimen by Raman spectroscopy, see copy attached.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mountkeithite

Formula: 
[(Mg1-xFe3+x)(OH)2][SO4]x/2·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
MKD5 nickel deposit, Mount Keith, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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