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Cacoxenite On Wavellite

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Cacoxenite On Wavellite

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Description
Locality: 
Lavers Hill, Fish Creek, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

Gemmy amber cacoxenite crystals in radial sprays with pale yellow tuffed clusters of smaller acicular caoxenite hemispheres, all over a matrix covered with spheres of colourless wavellite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
Earthstones Australia

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