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Metaswitzerite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3.1 × 1.8 cm
Description

A good coverage of pinkish platy crystals metaswitzerite Mn3(PO4)2•4(H2O) occurs across the hematite matrix.

Metaswitzerite is the result of the rapid dehydration of switzerite & approved as a new species by the IMA in 1986.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA
Gondwana Minerals