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Erythrite & Tyrolite

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Erythrite & Tyrolite

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Description
Locality: 
La Encontrada Mine, Molvizar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4.2 × 5.6 cm
Weight: 
128.00gr
Description

Group of very aesthetic erythrite crystals and tyrolite on a quartzite matrix with minor conichalcite from this small Spanish deposit.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Erythrite

Formula: 
Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Tyrolite

Formula: 
Ca2Cu9(AsO4)4(CO3)(OH)8·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.DM.10
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Falkenstein, Falkenstein District, Schwaz, Brixlegg - Schwaz area, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

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