University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Challacolloite
Size of the sample: 26 mm
Hölzel-No.
 
3.EB.150
Type of specimen
 
HT
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
2004-028 / 2004
Chemical formula
 
KPb2Cl5
Type locality
 
Chile, Iquique, Challacollo, Challacollo Mine
Associated minerals
 
Cotunnite, uklonskovite, "percylite", hemimorphite, caracolite, anglesite, nitratine, anhydrite, fluorite, quartz
Collection
 
Mineralogisches Museum - Universität Hamburg
Contact person
 
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schlüter
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
MMHH MD 38 / Tresor des Museums
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Mineral specimen
References

The new mineral challacolloite, KPb2Cl5, the natural occurrence of a technically known laser material.
Schlüter, J., Pohl, D. and Britvin, S. (2005)
N. Jb. Miner. Mh., Vol. 182/1, 95-101
Notes / Further information

Discovered by Arturo Molina Donoso, Iquique, Chile, on the dumps of the Challacollo mine in 2003.
Last update 27. April 2022 by A. Matthies Imprint (german)