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Vuagnatite

Charlie Key collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.1 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a very rich sample from the Charlie Key collection with hundreds of perfect yellow vuagnatite crystals on purple piemontite-Sr with minor sturmanite and xonotlite from this small find of this rare species at the Wessels Mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vuagnatite

Formula: 
CaAl(SiO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
9.AG.60
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Bögürtlencik Tepe, Doganbaba, Taurus Mts, Burdur Province, Mediterranean Region, Turkey

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