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Rosiaite & Tripuhyite

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Rosiaite & Tripuhyite

Type Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Nice, glassy, sharp crystals of this not spread PbSb oxide, are flattened on more points of the specimen together with tripuhyite green crystals and colorless valentinite. It coming from the type-locality for rosiaite.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rosiaite

Formula: 
PbSb5+2O6
Strunz: 
4.DH.25
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy

Tripuhyite

Formula: 
Fe3+Sb5+O4
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Tripuí (Tripuhy), Main district, Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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