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Avdoninite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Blyava, Sakmara Zone, Mednogorsk District, Orenburg Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

A sample of avdoninite, a potassium-copper-hydrochloride named in 2005 for mineralogist V.N. Avdonin, and only found at three locations worldwide.

Aggregates of green avdoninite crystals fill vugs, as typical oval flattened accumulations on the matrix.

Ex Mikhail Murashko collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Avdoninite

Formula: 
K2Cu5(OH)4Cl8·H2O
Strunz: 
3.DA.55
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Yadovitaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...
Cartils Minerals

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