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Bauxite

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Description
Locality: 
Les Baux-de-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.1 × 2.7 cm
Weight: 
50.00gr
Description

Rounded pisolitic concretions of “bauxite” in matrix from the mines of Les Baux-de-Provence, where bauxite was described for the first time. Bauxite is a rock, usually composed of a mixture of boehmite, diaspore and/or gibbsite.

Acquired in 1980. Ex Dr. Bob Janssens specimen, #422.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bauxite

Mixture Of: 

Böhmite

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.15
Hardness: 
3.5

Diaspore

Formula: 
AlO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FD.10
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0

Gibbsite

Formula: 
Al(OH)3
Strunz: 
4.FE.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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Belgium <2Kg (Unregistered)
7
NL, DE, FR, LU <2Kg (Unregistered)
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Rest EU <2Kg (Unregistered)
14
EUROPE (NO EU) <2Kg (Unregistered)
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USA <2Kg (Unregistered)
19
REST OF THE WORLD <2Kg (Unregistered)
21

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