Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Bulachite

Views:
Watches:
SMM814550

Bulachite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Sa Malesa, Sa Bidda Beccia, Sarroch, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

A beautiful and rich sample of bulachite, a very rare aluminium arseniate, found in only three location in the world.  This is an excellent and representative and rarely rich sample, with many flattened tufts of white acicular crystals, it comes from the very small mine that provided the best samples in the world, it's lost in not easily accessible and wild area of the Sardinian hinland. Found 2001.

 

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bulachite

Formula: 
Al2(AsO4)(OH)3·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Neubulach, Calw, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps