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Cadwaladerite

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Cadwaladerite

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Description
Locality: 
Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm
Description

Yellow brown microcrystals and masses of the very rare aluminium chloride-hydroxide mineral cadwaladerite from only one of the very few localities known worldwide.

Cadwaladerite in visible crystals is almost never seen in the mineral market.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cadwaladerite

Formula: 
Al5(H2O)3(OH)12·n(Cl,H2O)
Strunz: 
3.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Cerros Pintados, Pampa del Tamarugal, Tarapacá Region, Chile

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