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Whitlockite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer County, South Dakota, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Rare Ca-Mg phosphate mineral, forms colorless to white rhombs on quartz matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitlockite

Formula: 
Ca9Mg(PO4)6(HPO4)
Group Parent: 
Whitlockite Group
Strunz: 
8.AC.45
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 -
Colour: 
Colourless, grey-white, light pink, light yellow; colourless in transmitted light
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Loranth Minerals

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