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Locality: 
Poço d'Antas Claim, Piauí Valley, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Description

A very fine miniature consisting of a cluster of brownish well developed crystals of the fairly rare phosphate eosphorite, unusually individualized (analyzed, not childrenite!).

Large crystals for the species perched on small quartz matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eosphorite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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