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Strengite & Cacoxenite

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Strengite & Cacoxenite

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Description
Locality: 
Fonte da Cal Mine, Bendada Mines, Bendada, Sabugal, Guarda District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

Very nice sample with lots of carmin pink strengite aggregates on frondelite/rockbridgeite. Cacoxenite is present as nice oprange 'urchins'. A few beraunite 'urchins' are also present.

Collected: 
2007
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic