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Cafarsite

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Description
Locality: 
Devero Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 9 × 6.5 cm
Weight: 
595.00gr
Description

This specimen is an excellent display piece of Cafarsite featuring fairly sharp, rusty-bronze colored, altered, modified octahedral crystals with Clinochlore on matrix. The largest Cafarsite measures 15 mm across, and the piece is filled with crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cafarsite

Formula: 
Ca5.9Mn1.7Fe3Ti3(AsO3)12·4-5H2O
Strunz: 
4.JC.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Wanni glacier - Scherbadung area (Monte Cervandone), Kriegalp Valley (Chriegalp Valley), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland