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Wavellite

Dan Behnke collection

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Description
Locality: 
Phosphoria Mine, Bone Valley, Polk County, Florida, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 0.9 cm
Description

ILLUSTRATED!! You are bidding on a small sample with very nice, orange bladed crystals of wavellite in a phosphate nodule cavity. Having collected at this locality numerous times I can say this is a very unusual color and habit for the mine. Illustrated in Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd Edition 1990. Comes with three original slides taken by Dan and his original collection index card. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
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Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK

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