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New mineral species for Hungary in 2000
Elements
Kolymite Cu7Hg6 Locality: Andrássy-III. mine, Rudabánya. Description: microscopic grains together with copper and moschellandsbergite.
Sulphides
Pyrostilpnite Ag3SbS3 Locality: Fehér Hill, Telkibánya, Tokaj Mountains. Description: rare, dark red, tabular crystals (to 0.5 mm) in close association with pyrargyrite.
Halides
Connellite Cu19Cl4(SO4)(OH)32 · 3H2OLocality: Rudabánya. Description: ink-blue, irregular aggregates (up to 0.2 mm) in cuprite.
Oxides
Moganite SiO2 Locality: Ördögorom Hill, Budapest. Description: it is a microscopic constituent of chert, together with quartz.
Partzite Cu2Sb(O, OH)7 Locality: Andrássy-III. mine, Rudabánya. Description: rare, olive green earthy masses and porous crusts in the cavities of spherosiderite.
Carbonates
Rosasite CuZn(CO3)(OH)2 Locality: Nagylápa-fő, Parádsasvár, Mátra Mountains; Adolf mine, Rudabánya. Description: blue-green, globular aggregates (up to 0.5 mm) together with hydrozincite, hemimorphite, etc
Thermonatrite Na2CO3 • H2O Locality: around Újfehértó and Apajpuszta, Great Hungarian Plain. Description: a component of porous, white to grey efflorescences, found on the surface of alkaline soils, in the Great Hungarian Plain.
Sulphates
Kröhnkite Na2Cu(SO4)2 • 2H2O Locality: -900 m level of Recsk ore mine, Mátra Mountains. Description: massive, sky-blue precipitations together with blödite and sodium alum.
Phosphates and arsenates
Vauquelinite Pb2Cu(PO4)(CrO4)(OH) Locality: Szár Hill, Szabadbattyán ore deposit. Description: yellow-green tabular crystals (up to 0.03 mm), close association with bindheimite, malachite and cerussite.
Zeunerite Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2 • 10-16H2O Locality: in an adit of the Örsi Hill, Badacsonyörs, Balaton Highland. Description: green lamellae, tabular or bipyramidal crystals (up to 0.5 mm) in a small uranium occurrence.
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