Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Carminite & Pharmacosiderite

Views:
Watches:
SMM652168

Carminite & Pharmacosiderite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Bruncu Berritta Prospect, San Vito, Sarrabus, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Beautiful red carmine crystals, scattered in a tangle of green, shiny, sharp, cubic crystals of pharmacosiderite, the sample comes from an unpublished and remote locality of the Sarrabus, Sardinia. Personal finding (2003).

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carminite

Formula: 
PbFe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BH.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Louise Mine, Bürdenbach, Altenkirchen, Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pharmacosiderite

Formula: 
KFe3+4(AsO4)3(OH)4·6-7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Carharrack Mine, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps