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Rauenthalite & Phaunouxite

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Rauenthalite & Phaunouxite

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Description
Locality: 
Gabe Gottes Mine, Neuenberg, Ste Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 3 × 1 cm
Description

Colorless rauenthalite crystals on balls of microcrystzalline phaunoxite. Sainte-Marie is the type localiy for both and they seem to appear only together (at least here).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rauenthalite

Formula: 
Ca3(AsO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.40
Hardness: 
2.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Gabe Gottes Mine (incl. Giftgrube), Neuenberg, Ste Marie-aux-Mines (Markirch), Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France

Phaunouxite

Formula: 
Ca3(AsO4)2·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.40
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Gabe Gottes Mine (incl. Giftgrube), Neuenberg, Ste Marie-aux-Mines (Markirch), Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France

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