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Alunite from
Imawarì Yeuta cave, Auyán-tepui (Auyán-tepuy; Ayan Tepui), Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar, Venezuela


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Imawarì Yeuta cave, Auyán-tepui (Auyán-tepuy; Ayan Tepui), Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar, Venezuela
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:964698
Long-form Identifier:1:3:964698:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
76.0km (47.2 miles) ⓘAkopan-Dal Cin cave system, Chimantá Massif (Chimantha Massif), Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar, Venezuela
References
Sauro, F., De Vivo, A., Vergara, F., De Waele, J. (2013) Imawarì Yeuta: a new giant cave system in the quartz sandstones of the Auyan Tepui, Bolivar state, Venezuela. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Speleology, 2, 19-27.
Ghezzi, Daniele, Foschi, Lisa, Firrincieli, Andrea, Hong, Pei-Ying, Vergara, Freddy, De Waele, Jo, Sauro, Francesco, Cappelletti, Martina (2022) Insights into the microbial life in silica-rich subterranean environments: microbial communities and ecological interactions in an orthoquartzite cave (Imawarì Yeuta, Auyan Tepui, Venezuela) Frontiers in Microbiology, 13. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.930302
 
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