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Pertlikite & Coquimbite

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Pertlikite & Coquimbite

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Locality: 
Grotta dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico, Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Small groups of glassy, pale gray crystals of pertlikite contrast with the delicate purple cyclamen mass of coquimbite crystals. Nice

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pertlikite

Formula: 
K2(Fe2+,Mg)2Mg4Fe3+2Al(SO4)12·18H2O
Strunz: 
7.CC.25
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Zagh Mine (Tangeh Zagh mine; Madeni Zakh), Haji Abad town, Bandar Abbas (Bandar-e Abbas), Bandar-Abbas County, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Coquimbite

Formula: 
Fe2-xAlx(SO4)3·9H2O, x ~0.5
Strunz: 
7.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Coquimbo Region, Chile

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