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Eugsterite & Ammineite

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Eugsterite & Ammineite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Pabellon de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Good piece with two fairly rare minerals. Eugsterite is a Na-Ca-sulfate mineral, occurs as white tufts on halite matrix. Ammineite is a copper halide, forms blue green masses in halite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eugsterite

Formula: 
Na4Ca(SO4)3·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.25
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Colour: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Karapinar, Great Konya Basin, Konya Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey

Ammineite

Formula: 
[CuCl2(NH3)2]
Strunz: 
3.C0.
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Pabellón de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Loranth Minerals

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