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Saléeite On Phosphosiderite

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Saléeite On Phosphosiderite

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Description
Locality: 
Boa Vista Pegmatite, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

A single bright transparent yellow saleeite crystal on a bed of pale voilet phosphosiderite crystals. The crystals line a cavity in a pegmatic matrix with several thin yellow plates of salessite along the contact planes between the various minerals making up the matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Saléeite

Formula: 
Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Phosphosiderite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Kalterborn Mine, Eiserfeld, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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