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Bohuslavite & Gypsum

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Bohuslavite & Gypsum

Type Locality
New Mineral type

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Description
Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

A new specie for the renowned Buca della Vena mine, IMA 2018-074a Bohuslavite is a new approved (February-2019) Triclinic, iron phosphate and sulphate: Fe3+4(PO4)3(SO4)(OH)·nH2O (15 ≤ n ≤ 24)  with a new structure type. The sample have flattened groups of many pale-pink, tabulars pseudohexagonals crystals. Good specimen for this new specie.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bohuslavite

Formula: 
Fe3+4(PO4)3(SO4)(OH)·nH2O (15 ≤ n ≤ 24)
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Type Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White.

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