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Pyrobelonite & Shigaite

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Pyrobelonite & Shigaite

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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: 
1.9 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm
Description

Dark red pyrobelonite crystals associated with yellow shigaite from the Iron Monarch mine, South Australia. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrobelonite

Formula: 
PbMn2+(VO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.40
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Shigaite

Formula: 
Mn6Al3(OH)18[Na(H2O)6][SO4]2·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Ioi mine, Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan