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Rappoldite

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Rappoldite

ex coll. Lutz Schlegel
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Description
Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Red-brown crystalgroups of rappoldite in vugs of clear white quartz crystals.

Good specimen of this very rare mineral from the type and only locality. 

Part of the type material (Lutz Schlegel)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rappoldite

Formula: 
Pb(Co,Ni,Zn)2(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.20
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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