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Ruifrancoite & Meurigite

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Ruifrancoite & Meurigite

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Description
Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample of muscovite crystals with several brown spheres of radiating ruifrancoite crystals and hundreds of small sprays of meurigite-K. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ruifrancoite

Formula: 
Ca22(Fe3+,Mn2+,Mg)4Be4(PO4)6(OH)4(OH,H2O)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.10
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine (Proberil mine), Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Meurigite

Synonym Of: 

Meurigite-K

Formula: 
KFe3+8(PO4)6(OH)7·6.5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DJ.20
Hardness: 
3.0

Meurigite-Na

Formula: 
NaFe3+8(PO4)6(OH)7·6.5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DJ.20
Hardness: 
0.0

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