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Wicksite & Phosphosiderite

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Wicksite & Phosphosiderite

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Description
Locality: 
Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a large vug that has many pink prisms of phosphosiderite with sparse and very rare green groups of tiny wicksite-Mn crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wicksite

Formula: 
NaCa2(Fe2+,Mn2+)4MgFe3+(PO4)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CF.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Big Fish River, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

Phosphosiderite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Kalterborn Mine, Eiserfeld, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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