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Morinite

Self collected
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Gunheath Pit, St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Weight: 
18.00gr
Description

One of the pieces collected during the first and only British occurrence of this mineral.

Elton, N. J., Hooper, J. J., & Coggon, L. (1996). Morinite from Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Mineralogical Magazine, 60(3), 517-518.

A crust of pale gray morinite crystals on crystalline quartz sitting on a quartz matrix.

Collected: 
23/10/1993
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Morinite

Formula: 
NaCa2Al2(PO4)2(OH)F4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DM.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Montebras Mines, Montebras, Soumans, Creuse, Limousin, France

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