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Aluminite

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Description
Locality: 
Halle, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

 All around perfect white earthy nodular mass of aluminite from the

Type Locality.     

      Two specimens  ( 3cm  and 2.5cm )

 

The exact locality were the type material was found is the garden of the

orphanage of the Frankensche Stiftung in Halle as written on the label.

 

Ex collection Dr. Dieter Bartnik, Leipzig.

Comes with a - copy - of the handwritten label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aluminite

Formula: 
Al2(SO4)(OH)4·7H2O
Strunz: 
7.DC.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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