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Cacoxenite With Quartz

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Cacoxenite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

Radiating acicular golden brown cacoxenite crystals on transparent quartz.

From a unique find of this rare phosphate mineral in Greece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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