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Lafossaite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.25 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

Outstanding cubic crystals of the extremely rare thallium mineral lafossaite from the type and one of the only four localities known worldwide.

Lafossaite is a thallium chloride-bromide. Bromine minerals are extremely rare in Nature, from more than 5500 minerals known, only 17 have bromine in its composition, and this is one of them! (source MINDAT).

SEM-EDS analyzed, analysis included here.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lafossaite

Formula: 
Tl(Cl,Br)
Strunz: 
3.AA.25
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

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