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Wardite & Childrenite

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Description
Locality: 
Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 6.9 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

Fine sharp lustrous and well defined crystals of wardite to 7 mm in size partially coated by hundreds of elongated micro crystals of vitreous brown childrenite.

Ex Henk Smeets #2134.

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

Childrenite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK

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