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Saléeite & Bassetite

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Saléeite & Bassetite

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Description
Locality: 
Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

A nice sample of saleeite from the classic Sardinian mining locality, with tabular and prismatic, glassy crystals, some highly transparent, are together with tabular packed reddish crystals of bassetite, the corresponding Fe dominant term.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Saléeite

Formula: 
Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Bassetite

Formula: 
Fe2+(UO2)2(PO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carn Brea, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
Isostructural with: 
Autunite
Nováčekite-II
Saléeite

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