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Cryptomelane & Scholzite

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Cryptomelane & Scholzite

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Description
Locality: 
Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 7.7 × 6.3 cm
Description

Botyroidal masses of black cryptomelane, in places with a golden brown patina from Reaphook Hill with thousand of small scholzite crystals scattered around.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cryptomelane

Formula: 
K(Mn4+7Mn3+)O16
Strunz: 
4.DK.05a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Tombstone, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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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