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Artinite

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Description
Locality: 
Luning Area, Mineral County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3.8 × 1.7 cm
Description

White, vitreous lustrous puffballs of artinite on typically matrix. They are very fine-needled and well crystallized. A good and mostly undamaged sample of this magnesium carbonate. Artinite honors Prof. Ettore Artini (1866-1928) from the Univerity of Milan.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Artinite

Formula: 
Mg2(CO3)(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Dossi di Franscia (Franscia Mine; Franscia Mines; Franscia Quarries), Campo Franscia (Franscia), Lanzada, Lanterna Valley, Malenco Valley, Valtellina, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
Wendel Minerals

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