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Wicksite Strengite & Phosphosiderite

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Wicksite Strengite & Phosphosiderite

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Description
Locality: 
Bull Moose Mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.2 × 1.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug hosting a very nice combination of twinned, bright pink phosphosiderite and strengite crystals, coated in spots with green carpets of tiny wicksite crystals. This wicksite may corespond to the new mineral maneckiite, although analysis has not been done. 

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

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany

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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