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Strengite Wavellite

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Strengite Wavellite

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Description
Locality: 
Fragas da Carvalhosa Mine, Felgar, Torre de Moncorvo, Bragança District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

specimenm with some beautiful clear light pink crystals of strengite with associate colourless prismatic crystals of wavellite on matrix.

c. 9604

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany

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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