| | Description | |
| Type Locality: | La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Lipari, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy is the type locality for Hephaistosite | | Quality of samples: | not specified / average specimens | | Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Believed Valid | | References | |
| References: | Campostrini I., Demartin F., Gramaccioli C.M. (2008): Hephaistosite, TlPb2Cl5 a new mineral species from La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy. - Canadian Mineralogist 46, 701-708; Mitolo D., Pinto D., Garavelli A., Bindi L. & Vurro F. (2009): The role of the minor substitutions in the crystal structure of natural challacolloite, KPb2Cl5, and hephaistosite, TlPb2Cl5, from Vulcano (Aeolian Archipelago, Italy). Mineralogy and Petrology 96, 121-128. | | Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Hephaistosite data | | Locality Data: | Click here to view La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Lipari, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy |
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