بتریوژن

Key facts

Mineral.name

Botryogen

Mineral.image

Botryogen-Butlerite-Copiapite-d05-1a.jpg

Mineral.imagesize

260px

Mineral.caption

Specimen from Mina Santa Elena, Alcaparrosa, San Juan, Argentina with a red colored crystal of botryogen in a matrix of butlerite, copiapite and parabutlerite (size:5.7 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm)

Mineral.category

Sulfate minerals

Mineral.formula

MgFe3+(SO4)2(OH)·7H2O

Mineral.IMAsymbol

Byg

Mineral.strunz

7.DC.25

Mineral.system

Monoclinic

Mineral.class

Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)

Mineral.symmetry

P21/n

Mineral.mohs