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Gatehouseite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Description

A good example of gatehouseite, a very rare manganese-phosphate, named in 1992 after Australian chemist Dr. Bryan Gatehouse. The specimen has several small yellow to yellow-brown lath-like crystals of gatehouseite on matrix.
From the Type Locality.
Ex Glyn Francis collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gatehouseite

Formula: 
Mn2+5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Cartils Minerals

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