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Nitrobarite

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Description
Locality: 
Taltal, Santa Catalina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 0.3 × 0.1 cm
Description

Many specimens of white crystal aggregates of the rare nitrobarite from the TL in Chile, in small pieces of brown matrix.

Nitrobarite from TL is very rare in the mineral market.

Only4 known localities worldwide.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nitrobarite

Formula: 
Ba(NO3)2
Strunz: 
5.NA.20
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Chile

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