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Challacolloite

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Challacolloite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Yellow-gold crystals, of challacolloite and few (not photographed) lillianite. Probably from La Fossa Crater come the best crystals known for this specie. Very good specimen!

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Challacolloite

Formula: 
KPb2Cl5
Strunz: 
3.AA.55
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Lolon Mine (Challacollo Mine), Challacollo, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile

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