Santabarbaraite
Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerchenskyi (Fe)-ore basin, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
6.1 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm. A superlative 2.3 cm wide spray of lustrous, rust-red santabarbaraite spear-points is aesthetically set on the coated nodular ironstone matrix on this outstanding and rare specimen from this famous extinct locale. Orginally called kertschenite, for the locality, the species was found to be rare santabarbaraite, an amorphous ...
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