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Malhmoodite & Titanite

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Malhmoodite & Titanite

Don Owens collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
North Wilson Pit, Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with an area that is host to dozens of malhmoodite spheres with small pink crystals of titanite on pyroxene. A very rich sample of this rare zirconium phosphate collected in 1982 by Don Owens, the mine geologist. From his personal collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malhmoodite

Formula: 
FeZr(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.75
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Wilson Springs (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co., Arkansas, USA

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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