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Katoite : Ca3Al2[(OH)8-6|(SiO4)1-1.5]

Caspar quarry, Ettringer Bellerberg Mt. (Bellberg Mt.; Bellenberg Mt.; Billenberg Mt.; Boilenberg Mt.), Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Picture width 2 mm. Collection Bernd Ternes. Photo Stephan Wolfsried
 © Stephan WolfsriedPhoto ID: 74375    View Count: 375

Katoite : Ca3Al2[(OH)8-6|(SiO4)1-1.5], Magnetite : Fe2+Fe3+2O4

Caspar quarry, Ettringer Bellerberg Mt. (Bellberg Mt.; Bellenberg Mt.; Billenberg Mt.; Boilenberg Mt.), Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Picture width is 2mm. Clear globules of Katoite grown on black Magnetite.
 © Elmar LacknerPhoto ID: 141329    View Count: 203

Katoite : Ca3Al2[(OH)8-6|(SiO4)1-1.5]

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy

0.04 mm long section of a cluster of colorless katoite crystals from the type localtity as described by Passaglia and Rinaldi (1984) Bull de Mineral 107:605-18.
 © CaltechPhoto ID: 45683    View Count: 881

Katoite : Ca3Al2[(OH)8-6|(SiO4)1-1.5]

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy

the photo show an octahedral (colorless) katoite microcrystal
on tabular crystals of afwillite (the afwillite dimension is up 1 mm)

(this locality is type locality for katoite)

Photo Bernardino Turconi

Collection Domenico Preite
 © D. PreitePhoto ID: 221809    View Count: 69

Katoite : Ca3Al2[(OH)8-6|(SiO4)1-1.5]

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy

group of colorless octahedral crystals of katoite up to 0.1 mm

(this locality is type locality for katoite)

Photo Bernardino Turconi

Collection Domenico Preite
 © D. PreitePhoto ID: 221810    View Count: 69

Katoite : Ca3Al2[(OH)8-6|(SiO4)1-1.5]

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy


cluster of colorless (pale green for alteration)
octahedral microcrystals of katoite up to 0.1 mm

(this locality is type locality for katoite)

Photo Bernardino Turconi

Collection Domenico Preite
 © D. PreitePhoto ID: 221844    View Count: 66
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