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Gottlobite

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Gottlobite

Rare mineral
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Description
Locality: 
Gottlob Hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm
Description

Tiny orange-red crystals of very rare gottlobite on hausmannite matrix.

Author's material from the type and only locality.

Detail photo by  Joy Desor - Mineralanalytik.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gottlobite

Formula: 
CaMg(VO4,AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Glücksstern Mine, Gottlob Hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany

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