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Amarantite & Hohmannite

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Amarantite & Hohmannite

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Description
Locality: 
Queténa Mine, Chuquicamata, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Orange red amarantite crystals associated to green hohmannite from the type locality for both species.

Analyzed specimen by Ramsn spectrocopy, see copy attached.

Very nice under the microscope.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amarantite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(SO4)2O·7H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Caracoles, Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

Hohmannite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(SO4)2O·8H2O
Strunz: 
7.DB.30
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

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