Mineralpedia Details for Sassolite
Sassolite
- Formula
- B(OH)3
- Crystal System
- Triclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Platy, Encrustations, Tabular
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous - Pearly
- Color
- white, gray, yellow, brown
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Triclinic - Pinacoidal
- Fracture
- Sectile
- Hardness
- 1
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Sassolite from Volcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands, Messina Prov., Sicily, Italy
Colorless to white micro crystals occuring as silky Sassolite with Sulphur. Lipari is another volcano in which a lot of bizarre minerals have been found. It is the type locality for 36 minerals!
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