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Bulachite

Rare Mineral

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Locality: 
Sa Malesa, Sa Bidda Beccia, Sarroch, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Small rich sample of bulachite, a very rare aluminium  arseniate, found in only three places in the world, this is an excellent and representative sample, with many tufts of white acicular crystals, it comes from the very small mine that provided the best samples in the world, it's lost in not easily accessible and wild area of the Sardinian hinterland. Found 2001.

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What's on the rock

Bulachite

Formula: 
Al2(AsO4)(OH)3·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Neubulach, Calw, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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