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Picropharmacolite

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Picropharmacolite

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Description
Locality: 
Richelsdorf District, Wildeck, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19.3 × 7.3 × 3.8 cm
Description

Numerous of white puffballs of Picropharmacolite accompanied by pale pink amorphous Erythrite, covering a part of a large matrix-plate. This is a fine and typical specimen of this rare arsenate and hard to obtain nowadays.

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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