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Orlandiite & Sarrabusite

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Orlandiite & Sarrabusite

Rare Minerals from Type Locality
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Description
Locality: 
Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1 × 1.5 cm
Description

Excellent sample from the well-known mine of Baccu Locci famous for the rare species of selenium minerals. Slender colorless prismatic crystals of orlandiite and pale yellow-green crystalline aggregates of sarrabusite. Baccu Locci is the type locality of these two extremely rare selenites which have only been found here. Crystalline blue are chalcomenite. Very good specimen.

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What's on the rock

Orlandiite

Formula: 
Pb10(SeO4)O7Cl4·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JH.20
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy

Sarrabusite

Formula: 
Pb5CuCl4(SeO3)4
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy

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