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Sassolite

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Sassolite

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Description
Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

specimen with some very good groups of radiating cream colour crystals of sassolite on matrix.

historic rare specimen

c.2752

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sassolite

Formula: 
H3BO3
Strunz: 
6.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
1.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sasso Pisano, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy

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