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Kapundaite & Leucophosphite

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Kapundaite & Leucophosphite

Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 4.7 × 2.7 cm
Description

Nice combination piece of these rare phosphate species. Kapundaite is a newly discovered mineral, being approved by the IMA in 2009.

It occurs as brilliant yellow radiating acicular crystals associated with clear to pink leucophosphite and dark green natrodufrenite.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kapundaite

Formula: 
NaCaFe4(PO4)4(OH)3·5H2O
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Tom's quarry (Tom's Phosphate quarry; Clutterbuck Bros; PM 315; Sobey; BHP; ML 4993), Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia...

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia
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