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Aphthitalite

Ex Erberto Tealdi Collection
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Description
Locality: 
San Cataldo Sulphur Mines, San Cataldo, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.4 × 8.7 × 2.5 cm
Description

A fine plate, covered with numerous well developed six-sided white crystals of Aphthitalite (Glaserite) from the well known San Cataldo Potash Mine of Sicily. Aphthitalite is a rare potassium, sodium sulfate which is rarely found in this hexagonal crystals up to 5mm. A super specimen from the Erberto Tealdi Collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aphthitalite

Formula: 
(K,Na)3Na(SO4)2
Strunz: 
7.AC.35
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
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