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Windmountainite

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Description
Locality: 
Wind Mountain, Cornudas Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

specimen with some very nice massive crystalline aggregates of brownish-yellow radiating needles of windmountainite in matrix.

c. 9488

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Windmountainite

Formula: 
◻Fe3+2Mg22Si8O20(OH)2(H2O)4 · 4H2O
Strunz: 
9.EE.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2
Colour: 
Orange-brown
Streak: 
Orange-brown
Type Locality: 
Wind Mountain, Cornudas Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico, USA

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