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Lipscombite & Morinite

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Lipscombite & Morinite

Rare minerals
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Description
Locality: 
Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4.7 × 2.3 cm
Description

This is a lovely Silver Coin Mine specimen with a a super suite of micro minerals. I certainly won't pretend to know all that is going on with the specimen but I have certainly identified olive green lipscombite, light blue morinite, iridescent goethite, white clusters of phosphofibrite with possible white perhamite and or leucophosphite. Lots more to explore besides.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lipscombite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BB.90
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine (Proberil mine), Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Morinite

Formula: 
NaCa2Al2(PO4)2(OH)F4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DM.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Montebras Mines, Montebras, Soumans, Creuse, Limousin, France

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