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Fluellite Strengite & Leucophosphite

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Fluellite Strengite & Leucophosphite

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Description
Locality: 
Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia County, Virginia, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with several vugs in triphyllite hosting bright pink aggegrates of strengite, pale rose crystals of leucophosphite and small colorless fluellite tablets. All these minerals are extremely rare at the mine! Collected by Besty Martin, primary investigator of the unusual minerals from this mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluellite

Formula: 
Al2(PO4)F2(OH)·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Stenna Gwyn Mine (Stennagwyn Mine), Foxhole, St Stephen-in-Brannel, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK

Strengite

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

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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