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Xanthoxenite & Leucophosphite

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Xanthoxenite & Leucophosphite

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm
Description

Creamy white xanthoxenite crystal in sprays into open cavities and in places completely filling voids with pinkish crystals of leucophosphite and a number of apatite druzies in voids.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Xanthoxenite

Formula: 
Ca4Fe3+2(PO4)4(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.40
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Hühnerkobel Mine (Hennenkobel Mine), Rabenstein, Zwiesel, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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