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Santite

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Description
Locality: 
Larderello, Pomarance, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

Some crystalline grain analyzed of santite, from the original finding at the type locality closed in a capsule.Very rare from the type locality.

The name is for the Tuscan naturalist Giorgi Santi (1746-1823), director for more than 40 years of the Museum of Natural History, Pisa, Italy. The sizes are these of the capsule.

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Santite

Formula: 
K[B5O6(OH)4]·2H2O
Strunz: 
6.EA.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Larderello, Pomarance, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy

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