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Waterhouseite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Very rare salmon coloured waterhouseite crystals from the type locality. 

References: 

A. Pring et al.: Canadian Mineralogist 43:1401-1410 (2005)

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Waterhouseite

Formula: 
Mn2+7(PO4)2(OH)8
Strunz: 
8.BE.85
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia