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Phaunouxite

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Phaunouxite

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Description
Locality: 
Bauhaus, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 8 × 1.8 cm
Description

A band of small white phaunouxite balls sitting on a matrix rich of small pink erythrite sprays and white acicular picropharmacolite needles. Rich specimen of the very rare mineral.

Collected in 1984.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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