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Galeite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

A lot of yellow-orange aggregates in a capsule of the rare sulphate chloride-fluoride mineral galeite from the type locality in Searles Lake and only one of the three known localities worldwide.

Galeite is a very rare mineral almost never seen in the systematic mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Galeite

Formula: 
Na15(SO4)5F4Cl
Strunz: 
7.BD.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

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