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Leucophosphite & Hureaulite

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Leucophosphite & Hureaulite

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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceptional little leucophosphite specimen from the Tip Top Mine. There are several sharp, isolated crystals among larger hureaulite crystals with minor tavorite and jahnsite. Really nice micro!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Hureaulite

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)5(PO4)2(HPO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

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