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Whitmoreite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm
Description

Whitmoreite terminated here well radiating groups of light green crystals on devonian black schist. The white crust is maybe strengite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitmoreite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA