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Magnanelliite

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Locality: 
Sant'Olga Tunnel, Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

More groups of gold-yellow, pointed prismatic crystals of magnanelliite.

Magnanelliite is in honor of the minerals collector S.Magnanelli, protagonist of exceptional finds at the M. Arsiccio mine and more other areas of Tuscany. 

Magnanellite IMA 2019-006, the Fe3+ analogue of alcaparrosaite, it's a new specie found  in the Monte Arsiccio mine, world famous, for the magnificent and rare species that has been found here in recent decades. Magnanelliite ref.  IMA 2019-006. CNMNC Newsletter No. 49: Mineralogical Magazine, 83

 

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Magnanelliite

Formula: 
K3Fe3+2(SO4)4(OH)(H2O)2
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Type Locality: 
Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy...

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