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Aluminum: Al
Comments: Deep-green phlogopite with Al flake (at the center). AmMin, 94:1983. Location: Found in a desilicated pegmatite vein, NW Rila Mountain, Bulgaria. Scale: Scale Bar 1 mm. © American Mineralogist
Comments: Native aluminum in a polished section. Location: From a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaidzhan. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Alum-(K): KAl(SO4)2·12(H2O)
Comments: White encrustations and ballshaped aggregates of potassium alum. Location: Scholler mine, Libusin, Kladno, Czech Republic. Scale: See Fingers for Scale. © Diederik Visser
Alumohydrocalcite: CaAl2(CO3)2(OH)4·3(H2O)
Comments: Pinkish-white globular aggregates of alumohydrocalcite. Location: Carriere de Richelle, Vise, Belgium. Scale: Picture size 4 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Alumoklyuchevskite: K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4 Vergasovaite: Cu3O[(Mo,S)O4][SO4]
Comments: Green blebs to prismatic or needle-like crystals of alumoklyuchevskite associated with orange vergasovaite, co-type material. Location: Main fracture, N breakthrough, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image. © Rruff Database
Alumoklyuchevskite: K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4
Comments: Very small olive-greenish prismatic crystals of alumoklyuchevskite. Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. Scale: Sample size 1.8 x 1.5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Alumopharmacosiderite: KAl4(AsO4)3(OH)4·6·5(H2O) Olivenite: Cu2AsO4(OH)
Comments: Minute white specks of alumopharmacosiderite, with tan olivenite and unknown orange material. Location: Gold Hill, Gold Hill District (Clifton District), Deep Creek Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 mm. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Alumotungstite: (W,Al)(O,OH)3 (?)
Comments: Pale orange, chalky crust of alumotungstite on ferberite with quartz. Location: Hemerdon mine, Sparkwell, Plympton, Devon, England. Scale: See Image. © Rruff Database
Alunite: KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Comments: Octahedral clear to tan tinted crystals of alunite. Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Alunogen: Al2(SO4)3·17(H2O) Metavoltine: K4Na4(Fe++,Zn)Fe+++6(SO4)12O2·20(H2O)
Comments: Yellow metavoltine with white alunogen. Location: Carola Mine, Freital, near Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Alunogen: Al2(SO4)3·17(H2O) Jarosite: KFe+++3(SO4)2(OH)6
Comments: Colorless to white, tabular crystals alunogen on reddish jarosite. Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Alunogen: Al2(SO4)3·17(H2O) Voltaite: K2Fe++5Fe+++3Al(SO4)12·18(H2O)
Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals of voltaite on white alunogen. Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag