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Kleemanite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm
Description

A small but rich specimen of kleemanite  from the type locality.

A series of ivory colored balls of kleemanite crystals run allong the lenght of a section of manganese oxides.

This species was named in honour of Alfred Kleeman an Australian Petrologist and was appreoved as a new species in 1978

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kleemanite

Formula: 
ZnAl2(PO4)2(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.17
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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