Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Plimerite & Beraunite

Views:
Watches:
SYM179972

Plimerite & Beraunite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

Olive-green aggregates of plimerite with light brown radiating group of braunite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plimerite

Formula: 
ZnFe3+4(PO4)3(OH)5
Strunz: 
8.BC.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Beraunite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)5·6H2O
Group Parent: 
Beraunite Group
Strunz: 
8.DC.27
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic