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Senegalite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Kourou Diakouma, Saraya, Kedougou, Senegal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.5 × 3.1 cm
Description

Good, vuggy specimen with lots of senegalite crystals on matrix. From type locality. I found this myself 11 years ago and published an article about that trip in Lapis magazine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Senegalite

Formula: 
Al2(PO4)(OH)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Mount Kourou Diakouma (Kouroudiako), Saraya, Falémé River basin, Tambacounda Region, Senegal

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