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Sicklerite With Strengite

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Sicklerite With Strengite

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Description
Locality: 
Buranga Pegmatite, Gatumba, Ngororero District, Western Province, Rwanda
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 6.2 × 6 cm
Description

Cream coloured masses of sicklerite associated to purplish-blue strengite in a matrix of black heterosite.

Exchanged in Lubumbashi by Rene Virlet in 1965 a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sicklerite

Formula: 
Li1-x(Mn3+xMn2+1-x)PO4
Strunz: 
8.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Stewart Mine (MS 6162; Stewart Lithia mine), Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA

Strengite

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

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