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Tunisite

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Description
Locality: 
Condorcet, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm
Weight: 
31.00gr
Description

Rounded aggregates of translucent, colourless, razor-sharp tabular crystals of tunisite on a matrix rich in white calcite scalenohedrons, pearly euhedral gypsum and minor snow-white acicular celestine.

Acquired in 1989. Ex Dr. Bob Janssens specimen, #553.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tunisite

Formula: 
NaCa2Al4(CO3)4(OH)8Cl
Strunz: 
5.BB.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sidi Youssef Mine, Sakiet Sidi Youssef (Saqiyat Sidi Yusuf), Al Kåf Governorate (El Kef; Le Kef), Tunisia

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