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Babánekite & Sengierite

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Babánekite & Sengierite

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Description
Locality: 
Geister Vein, Rovnost Mine, Jáchymov, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm
Description

Pink babánekite from the Geister vein, Rovnost mien, CZ. 

Other minerals associated are chenevixite, yellow-green sengierite and zeunerite. 

SEM-EDS, SXRD & Raman confirmed no MA1550. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Babánekite

Formula: 
Cu3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Geister vein ("sv. Duch" vein), Rovnost Mine (Werner Mine), Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic...

Sengierite

Formula: 
Cu2(UO2)2(VO4)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Luiswishi Mine, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)