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Ferrimolybdite

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Ferrimolybdite

Antarctica expedition GANOVEX I 1979 / 80

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Description
Locality: 
Lillie Marleen Camp, Everett Range, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Bright yellow ferrimolybdite crystals with minor metallic grey molybdenite in cavities in quartz.

Freestanding ferrimolybdite crystals are very rare from this locality.

       Beautiful

The specimen was found during the first german Antarctica expedition GANOVEX I in 1979/80.

Comes with a - copy - of the original label.

Ex collection Dipl. Min. Ulrich Vetter, Hannover - the mineralogist from this expedition

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ferrimolybdite

Formula: 
Fe2(MoO4)3·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.GB.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Alekseevskii Mine, Lake Iktul', Karysh River Basin, Khakassia Republic (Khakassy Republic; Khakassiya Republic), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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