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Vantasselite

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Vantasselite

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Description
Locality: 
Bihain, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Walloon Brabant Province, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

From the type locality, this is a good piece of porous quartz richly holding hundreds of spheroidal rosettes of vantasselite crystals. Very good representative specimen.

Ex Francis Hubert #13606.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vantasselite

Formula: 
Al4(PO4)3(OH)3·9H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.37
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bihain, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium

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