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Sussexite On Rhodochrosite & Gatehouseite

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Sussexite On Rhodochrosite & Gatehouseite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 6.4 × 6.6 cm
Description

A fascinating specimen composed of a brecciated piece of haematite banded jasper that has been filled with rhododchrosite which open to a series of cavities. These cavities are lined with tan to pinkish rhodochrosite rhombs and fibrous offwhite sussexite. However one small insolated acvity in the side of the specimen has been lined with pinkish rhodochrosite rhombs dusted with haematite and isolated yellow acicular crystals of gatehouseite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sussexite

Formula: 
Mn2+BO2(OH)
Strunz: 
6.BA.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

Gatehouseite

Formula: 
Mn2+5(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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