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Earlshannonite & Ludlamite

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Earlshannonite & Ludlamite

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Description
Locality: 
Sítio do Castelo Mine, Folgosinho, Gouveia, Guarda District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm
Description

specimen with some very good tufts of orange needles of earshannonite with associate grays crystals of ludlamite on matrix.

c. 1919

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Earlshannonite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Ludlamite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mn,Mg)3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Jane (Falmouth Consolidated Mines), Baldhu, Kea, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

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