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Nesquehonite & Nickelhexahydrite

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Nesquehonite & Nickelhexahydrite

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Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mines, Lavrion, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

Outstanding white nesquehonite crystals associated to pale green nickelhexahydrite from the famous Lavrion mines.

Ex. Erich Laskowski collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nesquehonite

Formula: 
MgCO3·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.CA.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Nesquehoning Coal Mine, Nesquehoning, Lansford, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Nickelhexahydrite

Formula: 
(Ni,Mg,Fe)SO4·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Severniy Mine (Severnaya Mine), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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