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Metaswitzerite Mitridatite Rockbridgeite

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Metaswitzerite Mitridatite Rockbridgeite

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Description
Locality: 
Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde Area, Mangualde, Viseu District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.13cm
Description

Group of metaswitzerite crystals on fluorapatite. In the same specimen we have reddish mitridatite and very deep green rockbridgeite.

Analized specimen (scXRD, EDS and Raman).

Sample from Chão do Castanheiro.

Collected: 
2009
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Mitridatite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe3+3(PO4)3O2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Kamysh-Burun Trough, Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerchenskyi (Fe)-ore basin, Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine...

Rockbridgeite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+4(PO4)3(OH)5
Strunz: 
8.BC.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Midvale Mine, South Mountain, Midvale, Rockbridge Co., Virginia, USA