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Nabokoite & Atlasovite & Euchlorine

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Nabokoite & Atlasovite & Euchlorine

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Description
Locality: 
Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

One very small brown microcrystal (barely seen on the photos done through the glass capsule) of an intermediate member of the series nabokoite-atlasovite in a matrix of euchlorine from Tolbachik

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nabokoite

Formula: 
KCu7(SO4)5(Te4+O3)OCl
Strunz: 
7.BC.20
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Yadovitaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Atlasovite

Formula: 
K(BiO)Cu6Fe3+(SO4)5O3Cl
Strunz: 
7.BC.20
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Euchlorine

Formula: 
KNaCu3(SO4)3O
Strunz: 
7.BC.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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