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Rhomboclase

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Description
Locality: 
Pisciarelli di Agnano, Pozzuoli, Naples, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.07cm
Description

Very well-formed, sharp tabular colorless crystals of rhomboclase on granular aluminocoquimbite. Usually found as a secondary phase in iron mines,  rhomboclase was known as granular or stalactitic aggregates and such perfect crystals had never been obeserved. The locality is a low-temperature fumarolic field on the outer rim of famous Solfatara volcano.

Crystals are stable but water soluble and must be kept in a dry palce.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhomboclase

Formula: 
(H5O2)Fe3+(SO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Smolník (Schmöllnitz; Szomolnok), Gelnica Co., Košice Region, Slovakia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

We offer rare minerals to systematic collectors worldwide, doing our best to ensure accurate identification and provide adequate information and pictures.

Through extensive field search and contacts with trusted sources, we manage to provide the best in newly found species and classic type-locality minerals. Should your item prove to be different we offer an immediate refund of purchase.

Items may be returned within 15 days of receipt, please note that return costs are at customer's expense. We will issue refund as soon as we receive the item in unaltered condition.

Preferred payment is via Paypal, please follow instructions at ceckout and make payment to: [email protected] . If you don't have a Paypal account you can as well pay with your credit card following instructions for non-Paypal users.

Alternatively we accept bank transfer to: Roberto Bracco - bank: Intesa Sanpaolo - via Paleocapa 134/R - 17100 Savona, Italy.

IBAN code: IT79P0306910600100000067863 SWIFT code: BCITITMM

Cash and checks not accepted.

To contact us and ask questions about items on sale, please e-mail to: [email protected]  - phone: +39.3381058295. Returned items should be sent to: Roberto Bracco, piazza Monticello 12/2, 17100 Savona, Italy