Artroeite

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Below are some preliminary notes I have made about Artroeite. This entry and thread has been made as a place holder for information that you will hopefully contribute about Artroeite. It should be in no way be thought of as a claim I have staked out to write about this mineral, and in fact is an invitation for someone to step forward and create the article about this mineral. If you are so inclined and have questions about the format that such an article should have, go the The welcome topic at the top of the Best Minerals forum and read what has been posted there. Also take a look at some of the more mature articles that have already been written like Rhodochrosite, Adamite, Millerite etc. You will need also to pick out other images of Artroeite that will go into the article.



Artroeite
Pb[AlF₃(OH)²] Triclinic


Artroeite
Italy
Campania, Naples Province, Somma-Vesuvius Complex
We need someone to tell us about the Artroeite specimens from this locality.


*!Artroeite Micro and rare species collections.
PbAlF3(OH)2
USA
Arizona, Graham County, Aravaipa District, Klondyke, Grand Reef Mine. “Blades, up to 1 x 0.7 x 0.04 mm.1 The mineral was described from a single specimen supplied to the authors by Michael Shannon in 1981. “Artroeite is found on a single specimen in a 15 x 5 mm quartz-lined vug in association with anglesite and another new mineral of composition PbCa2Al(F,OH)9. …It occurs as colorless bladed crystals associated with quartz, fluorite, galena, anglesite, and an as yet undescribed mineral.” If you collect rare minerals this is just one of the many mineral species that you will almost certainly never be able to get unless more of the mineral is found at the Grand Reef mine or some new locality.
1 Mineralogical Record, Vol. 27, 1996, p 116; 2 American Mineralogist, Vol. 80, p. 179, 1995.



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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/27/2012 08:16AM by Rock Currier.