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Steropesite

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Steropesite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

A really good sample, full of yellow crystals of steropesite scattered on the upper face of the matrix. Steropesite is an exceptionally rare mineral, exclusive of the La Fossa crater, its outstanding, type locality. The steropesite is one of the very few halides containing thallium.

The sample was analyzed by one of the authors.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Steropesite

Formula: 
Tl3BiCl6
Strunz: 
3.CK.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy

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