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Oxiberaunite Cacoxenite & Dufrénite

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Oxiberaunite Cacoxenite & Dufrénite

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Description
Locality: 
Rotläufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Lahnau, Lahn-Dill, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 4.2 × 5 cm
Description

Very nice rich specimen with copper-colored oxiberaunite on limonite matrix. The rusty-yellow mineral must be cacoxenite, the olive-green balls should be dufrenite (if not: kidwellite) and there seems to be florencite at the sides (not listed - yet).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eleonorite

Formula: 
Fe3+6(PO4)4O(OH)4 · 6H2O
Group Parent: 
Beraunite Group
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3½ - 4
Colour: 
red, reddish brown
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany & Rotläufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Dufrénite

Formula: 
Ca0.5Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Anglar, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

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