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Wardite Eosphorite & Pyrite

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Wardite Eosphorite & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Stoneman Camp, Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

Lustrous striated greenish wardite crystals with elongated brown eosphorite and clusters of pyrite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wardite

Formula: 
NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DL.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

Eosphorite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5