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Krautite & Villyaellenite

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Krautite & Villyaellenite

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Description
Locality: 
Săcărâmb, Deva, Hunedoara County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Pink krautite clusters of hexagonal tabular crystals sitting on a beige, flesh-coloured villyaellenite crystal carpets.

The materia is "old one-time find". It is one of the most difficult sacarambian minerals to obtain.  I've never seen such a good krautite crystals before.  

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Krautite

Formula: 
Mn(HAsO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.15
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Sacarîmb (Sãcãrâmb; Szekerembe; Nagyág), Deva, Hunedoara Co., Romania

Villyaellenite

Formula: 
MnMn2Ca2(AsO4)2(HAsO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ste Marie-aux-Mines (Markirch), Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France

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