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Gorceixite Baryte & Siderite

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Gorceixite Baryte & Siderite

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Description
Locality: 
Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm
Description

A brecciated phosphatic matrix has been bounded together with carbonate rich fluorapatite leaving voids which in places have been filled with sprays of gorceixite crystals and also shiny black limonite on to which acicular blade spearlike crystals have formed together with rounded balls of siderite madeup od hundreds of individual acicular crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gorceixite

Formula: 
BaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·H2O
Strunz: 
8.BL.10
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
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