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Sabelliite

Type Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Is Murvonis Mine, Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

Sabelliite is a rare mineral whose type locality is Is Murvonis mine which nowadays is practically inaccessible and has been found in few other places in the world.
In this remarkable specimen, dozens of crystals, in the shape of small glassy and transparent emerald green coins or half-coin are visible in two points indicated by red arrows. Together there are spherical green malachite and teal teisite bundles (not photographed).

Rare, old sample (2002).

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sabelliite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)2Zn(AsO4,SbO4)(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BE.65
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Is Murvonis Mine, Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy

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