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Seeligerite & Boleite

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Seeligerite & Boleite

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Description
Locality: 
La Poderosa Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

Orange seeligerite crystals (a rare iodine mineral) associated to blue boleite from a classic locality in Chile for the mineral.

Iodine minerals are very rare in Nature since only 29 Iodine minerals are known of almost 5500 known minerals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Seeligerite

Formula: 
Pb3(IO3)OCl3
Strunz: 
4.KB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Santa Ana Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile

Boleite

Formula: 
KPb26Ag9Cu24(OH)48Cl62
Strunz: 
3.DB.15
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Mun. de Mulegé, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico

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