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Thermessaite

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Thermessaite

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

Very nice "cauliflower" of colorless, transparent, glassy, crystals of rare thermessaite, from the type locality. Analysed by one of the authors.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Thermessaite

Formula: 
K2(AlF3)(SO4)
Strunz: 
3.CG.25
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

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