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Antipinite & Salammoniac

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Description
Locality: 
Pabellon de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.2 × 0.5 cm
Description

Sky blue crystals and crystal aggregates of the extremely rare new mineral antipinite (IMA 2014-027) from the only known locality worldwide. Associated mineral is cubic pale green sal ammoniac.

Antipinite is a Copper-Sodium-Potassium Oxalate, which is a very rare combination in Nature since it is a mixture between an organic mineral and an inorganic mineral. 

Very limited finding.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Antipinite

Formula: 
KNa3Cu2(C2O4)4
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Pabellón de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile

Salammoniac

Formula: 
NH4Cl
Strunz: 
3.AA.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0

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