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Cacoxenite

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Cacoxenite

Don Owens collection

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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: 
3.6 × 2.9 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with nice clusters of cacoxenite needles in radial sprays on matrix. Collected by Don Owens, the mine geologist, in the 1980s. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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