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Petermegawite

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Petermegawite

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Description
Locality: 
El Dragón Mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a thumbnail sample with very rich druses of extremely rare petermegawite crystals coating the interior of vugs with minor chalcomenite and probable white spheres of bernardevansite, although not analyzed here. The petermegawite is very rich on this sample! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Petermegawite

Formula: 
Al6(Se4+O3)3[SiO3(OH)](OH)9 · 10H2O
Strunz: 
4.JJ.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Type Locality: 
El Dragón mine, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia

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