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Phosphophyllite Parahopeite Hemimorphite & Scholzite

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Phosphophyllite Parahopeite Hemimorphite & Scholzite

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Description
Locality: 
Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Brown coloured crystals of parahopeite are liberally covered by glassy phosphophyllite crystals on which white hemimorphite crystals have formed and a few roman swordlike clear crystals of scholzite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phosphophyllite

Formula: 
Zn2Fe(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Prismatic crystals, often twinned
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf North Pegmatite (Meixner Feldspar Pit), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Parahopeite

Formula: 
Zn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.70
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Broken Hill), Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

Scholzite

Formula: 
CaZn2(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.45
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic or platy crystals
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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