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Turquoise & Strengite

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Turquoise & Strengite

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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: 
4 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

Bright blue balls of micro crystals of turquoise form a thin crust on an earthy red hematite matrix. Micro crystals of strengite occur in association.

This unique deposit is now worked out.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Turquoise

Formula: 
Cu(Al,Fe3+)6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany
Gondwana Minerals