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Lonecreekite Sabieite & Clairite

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Lonecreekite Sabieite & Clairite

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Description
Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls Cave, Sabie, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm
Description

Outstanding colorless crystals of the extremely rare NH4-Fe-sulphate minerals lonecreekite, sabieite and clairite from the type locality for all of them in Sabie, Southafrica.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Analyzed specimen by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum), but the analysis is no longer available.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lonecreekite

Formula: 
(NH4)Fe3+(SO4)2·12H2O
Strunz: 
7.CC.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls cave, Sabie, Pilgrim's Rest, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa...

Sabieite

Formula: 
(NH4)Fe3+(SO4)2
Strunz: 
7.AC.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls cave, Sabie, Pilgrim's Rest, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa...

Clairite

Formula: 
(NH4)2Fe3(SO4)4(OH)3·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.55
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Lone Creek Falls cave, Sabie, Pilgrim's Rest, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa...

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