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Metaswitzerite Rockbridgeite

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Metaswitzerite Rockbridgeite

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Description
Locality: 
Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde Area, Mangualde, Viseu District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.2 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

Group of metaswitzerite crystals on fluorapatite. Rockbridgeite is also present in the specimen.

EDS, scXRD and Raman analized.

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

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