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Hephaistosite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Yellow microcrystals of the extremely rare thallium mineral hephaistosite (IMA 2006-043) in a contrasting matrix and associated to white prismatic pseudocotunnite and metallic bismuthinite.

Hephaistosite is a thallium-lead chloride (TlPb2Cl5) only found at La Fossa Crater worldwide !. 

Mineral Data
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Hephaistosite

Formula: 
TlPb2Cl5
Strunz: 
3.AA.60
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

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