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Scorodite

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Scorodite

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Description
Locality: 
Djebel Debar, Hammam Meskoutine, Guelma District, Guelma Province, Algeria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 4.2 × 2.8 cm
Description

Classic green banded aggregate of microcrystalline scorodite with good lustre at the surfaces. It is from the old mines at the Djebel Debar (Algeria).

With an old label from Ex. Ennio Contarini (specimen #5064).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Scorodite

Formula: 
Fe3+AsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Stamm Asser Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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