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Yavapaiite & Metavoltine

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Yavapaiite & Metavoltine

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Description
Locality: 
Grotta dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico, Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

Pale purplish pink yavapaiite associated to yellow metavoltine and unknown dark green spherules.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Yavapaiite

Formula: 
KFe(SO4)2
Strunz: 
7.AC.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
United Verde Mine (The Big Hole; Big Hole property; Hull Mine; Hopewell tunnel; Patented claim 3480; Patented claim 2812; Patented claims 3348), Jerome, Verde District, Black Hills (Black Hill Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

Metavoltine

Formula: 
Na6K2FeFe6(SO4)12O2·18H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.35
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Zagh Mine (Tangeh Zagh mine; Madeni Zakh), Haji Abad town, Bandar Abbas (Bandar-e Abbas), Bandar-Abbas County, Hormozgan Province, Iran

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