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Vauxite

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Description
Locality: 
Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Floating cluster of beautiful sharp deep blue crystals of this magnificent, rare iron aluminum phosphate from its type locality. The sample is composed of a a lot of fans of beautiful glassy and very sharp blue crystals, without matrix and well formed on both faces as visible in the photos.

Comes with a clear acrylic base.

Quite rare nowadays specimens so beautiful and of this size.

"Personal Selection"

Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vauxite

Formula: 
Fe2+Al2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.35
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province (Bustillos Province), Potosí Department, Bolivia

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