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Shigaite

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Description
Locality: 
Ioi Mine, Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Brown crystals of shigaite from the TL in Shiga, where it is very rare, sincer almost all specimens in tbe market are from Southafrica.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Shigaite

Formula: 
Mn6Al3(OH)18[Na(H2O)6][SO4]2·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Ioi mine, Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan

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