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Dickite from
St Gotthard Highway tunnel (south section), Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland


Locality type:Tunnel
Classification
Species:Dickite
Formula:Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Habit:Crusts of elongated tabular crystals to 0.6 mm
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Ankerite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dickite data
Locality Data:Click here to view St Gotthard Highway tunnel (south section), Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:537954
Long-form Identifier:1:3:537954:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Graeser, S., Stalder, H.A. (1974): Mineral-Neufunde aus der Schweiz und angrenzenden Gebieten. I. Schweizer Strahler, 3, 7, 265-277
Stalder, Hans Anton; Wagner, Albert; Graeser, Stefan; Stuker, Peter (1998) Mineralienlexikon der Schweiz. Wepf Verlag. 579pp.p.135
Hofmann, B., Soom, M., Kürsteiner, P., and Graeser, S. (2014) Wenig bekannte Tonmineralien: Neufunde von Dickit, Palygorskit und Rectorit aus der Schweiz. Schweizer Strahler, 4 (4/2014), 23-34.
 
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