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Weinebeneite

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Weinebeneite

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Locality: 
Brandrücken, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a flat-lying patch of grey, glassy, very rare weinebeneite on matrix. On a side view you can make out some crystal faces at very high magnification. A very rare Be-phosphate species.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Weinebeneite

Formula: 
CaBe3(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Spodumene prospect (Brandrücken exploration adit; Weinebene deposit), Brandrücken, Moschkogel - Weinebene area, Koralpe, Carinthia, Austria

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