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Russoite

Type Locality
New Mineral type

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Description
Locality: 
Bocca Grande Fumarole, Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 0.5 × 1 cm
Description

Material and analysis from authors.

A very good sample of the new mineral russoite, arsenite ammonium hydrate chloride (IMA 2015-105) found in the "Fumarola Bocca Grande"  Phlegrean Fields, "Solfatara di Pozzuoli", (Campostrini et al. 2016). Named after Massimo Russo born 1960, geologist and researcher at the "Osservatorio Vesuviano " National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Naples.
Structurally the russoite is closely related to the lucabindiite.
Russoite is exclusive of its type locality in which is very rarely found as tabular hexagonal, colorless crystals. 

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Russoite

Formula: 
(NH4)ClAs2O3(H2O)0.5
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Type Locality: 
Bocca Grande Fumarole, Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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