Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Demicheleite-(I) & Argesite

Views:
Watches:
SMM580658

Demicheleite-(I) & Argesite

Rare Mineral from Type Locality
Analysed

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

In this excellent sample, the demicheleite-(I), an extremely rare mineral,  is present in five and more points of the matrix, in small well shaped crystals, with metallic luster, elongated, prismatics. This of iodine, is the rarest of the three species of the group, (Cl and Br), and here, is together with another very rare specie, the argesite, with flattened, yellow-lemon crystals, with vitreous luster. They come from their type locality and the only known. Truly outstanding. Analysed by one of the authors.

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Demicheleite-(I)

Formula: 
BiSI
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

Argesite

Formula: 
(NH4)7Bi3Cl16
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps