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Cyrilovite On Kidwellite

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Cyrilovite On Kidwellite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Gemmy dark yellow blocky cyrilovite crystals on a bed of pale yellow kidwellite line one cavity, whilst in another it is all kidwellite and a third is the more common cyrilovite psm strengite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cyrilovite

Formula: 
NaFe3+3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DL.10
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Cyrilov phosphate pegmatite (Cyrillhof), Velké Meziříčí, Vysočina Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic

Kidwellite

Formula: 
NaFe3+9(PO4)6(OH)11·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.20
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Fodderstack Mountain, Norman, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA
Earthstones Australia

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