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Dittmarite

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Description
Locality: 
Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Several white single groups of the rare ammonium-Mg- phosphate mineral dittmarite from the type locality in Australia.

Specimens of dittmarite from the TL are rarely seen in the mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
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Dittmarite

Formula: 
(NH4)Mg(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...

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