Atlasovite

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Atlasovite
K(BiO)Cu₆Fe3+[Cl|O₃|(SO₄)₅] Tetragonal

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*!Atlasovite Rare species collections.
Cu62+Fe3+BiO4(SO4)5·KCl
Russia
Kamchatka, Great Clefted Talbachik Eruption. “Atlasovite occurs as tabular crystals showing the forms {001}, {110}, {012}, and {014}; the crystals may consist predominately of atlasovite, or atlasovite may occur as zones within nabokoite. Atlasovite is dark brown, transparent, with a vitreous luster and light brown streak. …The mineral is a sublimate from the Great Clefted Talbachik eruption. …A sample (as zones in nabokoite) is preserved in the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow.”1
1 American Mineralogist, Vol. 73, 1988 p. 924.



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