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Wardite

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Description
Locality: 
Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Cluster of undamaged, interpenetrated frost-white wardite crystals with minor prismatic brown eosphorite on a tiny matrix of rose quartz.

Ex Georges Vanacker* collection, it was acquired from David New in 11/1974.

*Vanackerite from Tsumeb was named after him.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wardite

Formula: 
NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DL.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

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