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Picropharmacolite

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Picropharmacolite

Ex Erberto Tealdi/Roland Glaser Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Sophia Mine, Wittichen, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

This fine specimen features a number of white puffballs of Picropharmacolite contrastful perched on granite matrix from the old Sophia Mine in the Black Forest. Such good specimens are rare and sought after since years,- and in the days when I still owned my Black Forest Collection, my  "Picro" was one of my treasures.

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
Wendel Minerals

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