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Mandarinoite

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Mandarinoite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Skouriotissa Mine, Skouriotissa, Nicosia District, Cyprus
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a rich coating of hundreds of nice mandarinoite crystals on fractures and vugs in the matrix. One vug has very nice stand up crystals. Very good sample of a rare mineral from an obscure locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mandarinoite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(SeO3)3·4H2O
Strunz: 
4.JH.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Virgen de Surumi mine (Pacajake mine; Pakajake mine), Pakajake Canyon (Pacajake Canyon), Chayanta Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia

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