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Hureaulite

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Hureaulite

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Description
Locality: 
Bendada Mines, Bendada, Sabugal, Guarda District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 5.2 × 4 cm
Description

Beautiful pale rosy hureaulite crystals in vugs with black rockbridgeite crystals.

Hureaulite is rather rare at the Bendada pegmatite and this is a very good sample from the famous location.

Collected 1984

 

Mineral Data
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Hureaulite

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)5(PO4)2(HPO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France