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What does alunite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A gray, water-soluble mineral, potassium aluminium sulphate; the natural source of alum, KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6.
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In the Goldfield camp the ores are closely associated with alunite in such a manner as to suggest a common origin.
Those who went had five stops on the trip and collected celestine, ulexite, malachite, duftite, alunite, rosasite, barite, cerussite, smithsonite, and wulfenite.
Alunite is a potassium-aluminum sulphate, which differs from sericite in that sulphur takes the place of silicon.
One of the interesting features of this occurrence is the abundance of alunite.
Rock sample 2074 taken from Gossan Ridge contains abundant alunite, tremolite, tourmaline, goethite, and quartz alteration of amphibole bearing-alkali rhyolite.
Of other natural mineral sources, alunite is the most important.

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