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Kryzhanovskite & Metaswitzerite

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Kryzhanovskite & Metaswitzerite

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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with several vugs lined with CO3-apatite needles. Intermixed in the vugs are nice brown crystals of kryzhanovskite and small white sprays of metaswitzerite. Kryzhanovskite is extremely rare at Tip Top! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kryzhanovskite

Formula: 
(Fe3+,Mn2+)3(PO4)2(OH,H2O)3
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Ak-Kezen' pegmatite, Belogorskii Town, Kalba Range, Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

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