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Perloffite

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Perloffite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

Very good and big black perloffite among ludlamite and phosphoferrite.

Old time specimen from a systematic collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Perloffite

Formula: 
Ba(Mn2+,Fe2+)2Fe3+2(PO4)3(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BH.20
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Big Chief Mine (Johnson pegmatite), Glendale, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA