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Picropharmacolite & Pharmacolite

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Picropharmacolite & Pharmacolite

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Description
Locality: 
Uranus Mine, Kleinrückerswalde, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5 × 3 cm
Weight: 
95.00gr
Description

It`s a piece of gneise with Pharmakolite on the surface. Also there is picropharmacolite on the gneise and on the pharmacolite.

The pharmacolite is transparent. Crystals till 4mm.

The picropharmacolite is white. Crystals till 2mm.

Very nice piece from the Uranus mine / Annaberg Buchholz.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Picropharmacolite

Formula: 
Ca4Mg(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Needles and encrustations
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ore dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süss, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany

Pharmacolite

Formula: 
Ca(HAsO4)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.50
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sophia Mine, Böckelsbach valley, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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