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Leonardsenite & Hydrokenoralstonite

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Leonardsenite & Hydrokenoralstonite

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Description
Locality: 
Uranus Mine, Kleinrückerswalde, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm
Description

Colourless leonardsenite with pale blue hydrokenoralstonite, zincowoodwardite and slikite from the Uranus mine, Kleinrückerswalde, Saxony, Germany. 

Analysed by Pseudo Gandolfi XRD and SEM-EDS. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Leonardsenite

Formula: 
MgAlF5·2H2O
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Eldfell, Heimaey, Heimaey island, Vestmannaeyjar archipelago (Westman islands), Iceland

Hydrokenoralstonite

Formula: 
NaMg[Al(F,OH)6]·H2O
Group Parent: 
Pyrochlore Supergroup
Strunz: 
3/C.03-60
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.5
Colour: 
Colourless, white
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland