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Churchite-(Y) Variscite & Baryte

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Churchite-(Y) Variscite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Girard, Burke County, Georgia, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on small sample with a a large vug that is host to hundreds of sprays of churchite-Y, pale balls of variscite crystals, and an occasional barite crystal. An exceptional sample from this little known phosphate locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Churchite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y(PO4)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.50
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Maffei Mine (Nitzelbuch Mine), Nitzlbuch (Nitzelbuch), Auerbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Variscite

Formula: 
AlPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Meßbach Quarry, Meßbach, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

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