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Gaitite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Pitiquito Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Outstanding white platy crystals of the extremely rare mineral gaitite from a locality in Mexico still not uploaded to Mindat..

Gaitite is a Ca-Zn arsenate.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this very sought after mineral, very rarely seen on the mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gaitite

Formula: 
Ca2Zn(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

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