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Nordgauite & Väyrynenite

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Nordgauite & Väyrynenite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Bendada Mines, Bendada, Sabugal, Guarda District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Very interesting material with nordgaueite and väyrynenite from the famous pegmatite in Northern Portugal.

Nordaueite is present as whiteish wolly crystals in a vug, väyrynenite as pale pink colored, intergrown crystals.

Rare. Collected 1984

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nordgauite

Formula: 
MnAl2(PO4)2(F,OH)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Väyrynenite

Formula: 
Mn2+Be(PO4)(OH,F)
Strunz: 
8.BA.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Viitaniemi pegmatite, Eräjärvi area, Orivesi, Western and Inner Finland Region, Finland