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Demicheleite-(I)

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Demicheleite-(I)

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

In this excellent sample, the demicheleite-(I), an extremely rare mineral,  is present in 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 yellow-lemon argesite micro-crystals. They come from their type locality and the only known. An outstanding sample. 
Analysed by one of the authors.

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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

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