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Variscite & Leucophosphite

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Variscite & Leucophosphite

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Description
Locality: 
Boa Vista Pegmatite, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 5 × 3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a nice speciem with raspberry coloured crystals and aggregates of Variscite up to 0.5 mm diameter sitting in parageneses on matrix. The parageneses of this speciem farther show brownish small crystals of Leucophosphite, violet-blue aggregates of Phosphosiderite and some Bermanite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Variscite

Formula: 
AlPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Meßbach Quarry, Meßbach, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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