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Planerite

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Planerite

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Description
Locality: 
Montgomery County Quarry, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.2 × 2 cm
Description

A rich array of Planerite in white-greenish spheres is scattered atop this piece.

Planerite is a quite rare Al bearing phosphate, known only in very few locales in the world.

The Planerite spheres are associated to another mineral, in white tuffs as you can see from the pics, that I was not able to identify.

Former D. Respino collection, with label. The piece also retains a previous anonimous label, handwritten.

Rare and very well represented!

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Planerite

Formula: 
Al6(PO4)2(HPO4)2(OH)8·4 H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.15
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Chernovskaya Mt, Chernaya River, Verkhnyaya Sysert', Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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