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Newberyite

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Description
Locality: 
Mejillones Peninsula, Mejillones, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

specimen with a very good complex striated colourless crystal of newberyite on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Newberyite

Formula: 
Mg(HPO4)·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...

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