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Ushkovite & Xanthoxenite

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Ushkovite & Xanthoxenite

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 5 × 5.7 cm
Description

Drak green dufrentite laces through a rich posphatic rock, associated with the dufrentite is leucophosphite and apatite.

What makes this specimen very interesting are sheets and crusts of orange opaque ushkovite and yellow xanthoxenite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ushkovite

Formula: 
MgFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Pit No. 232, Bol'shoi Tatkul' Lake, Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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
Earthstones Australia

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