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Montgomeryite

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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: 
2 × 1.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

Pale pink montgomeryite associated with beige mitridatite on dark matrix. 

SEM-EDS confirmed. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Montgomeryite

Formula: 
Ca4MgAl4(PO4)6(OH)4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA