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Wavellite

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Description
Locality: 
Langenstriegis, Frankenberg, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 4.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

Polychrome specimen of radiated acicular wavellite with different tones of green, richly covering a black slate matrix. Old historical piece, acquired in Germany short after the end of the Second World War (1948).

From the collection of Georges Vanacker*, a well-known Belgian systematic collector. Old label supplied with the specimen.

*Vanackerite (from Tsumeb) is named after him.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK

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