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Belloit
Belloite crystals (picture 1 cm); Belloite (yellowish green) with paratacamite (green) and nitratine (white) (sample 12 cm)
Mineral: Belloite Hölzel-No.: 3.CB.100 Type of specimen: CT IMA-No. / Accepted: 98-054 / 1999 Chemical formula: Cu(OH)Cl Type locality: Chile, Antofagasta region, Sierra Gorda, La Vendida mine Associated minerals: Nitratine, paratacamite, atacamite, gunnigite, alunite, natrojarosite Collection: Mineralogisches Museum - Universität Hamburg Catalogue−No. / Site: MMHH C9828c/ Tresor des Museums Nature of type specimen: Mineral specimen References:
Belloite, Cu(OH)Cl, a new mineral from Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile.
J. Schlüter, K.-H. Klaska, G. Gebhard (2000)
N. Jb. Miner. Mh. , 2 , 67-73 Notes / Further information:
Discovered by Georg Gebhard, Waldbröl, Germany, on dumps of the La Vendita mine in spring 1998. Type Specimen Catalogue Entry: http://www.typmineral.uni-hamburg.de/tables/en/belloite.html
Belloite, Cu(OH)Cl, a new mineral from Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile.
J. Schlüter, K.-H. Klaska, G. Gebhard (2000)
N. Jb. Miner. Mh. , 2 , 67-73 Notes / Further information:
Discovered by Georg Gebhard, Waldbröl, Germany, on dumps of the La Vendita mine in spring 1998. Type Specimen Catalogue Entry: http://www.typmineral.uni-hamburg.de/tables/en/belloite.html
Collection: Minerals
The Mineralogical Museum's mineral collection contains minerals, gemstones and precious stones as well as syntheses and imitations of minerals. The collection provides the basis for mineralogical research and teaching at the University of Hamburg. It has grown since 1988 from about 1,600 to date (2022) about 3,155 of the currently approximately 5,800 recognized mineral species, making it one of the largest mineralogical reference collections in Germany. In the context of geodiversity research, numerous new minerals have been scientifically described in the Mineralogical Museum and are deposited in the museum as so-called type minerals.
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