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Morinite & Wavellite

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Morinite & Wavellite

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Description
Locality: 
Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with rich cluster of blue cuprian morinite on matrix with nice sprays of wavellite and minute discs of perhamite or possibly iangreyite (not analyzed). 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Morinite

Formula: 
NaCa2Al2(PO4)2(OH)F4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DM.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Montebras Mines, Montebras, Soumans, Creuse, Limousin, France

Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK

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