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Landesite & Reddingite

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Landesite & Reddingite

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Description
Locality: 
Jocão Pegmatite, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Description

Deep brown octehedral landesite crystals together with brown reddingite and rose colored hureaulite crystals.

Very rich specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Landesite

Formula: 
Mn2+3-xFe3+x(PO4)2(OH)x·(3-x)H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA

Reddingite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)3(PO4)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA