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Triploidite & Metaswitzerite

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Triploidite & Metaswitzerite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 9 × 4.3 cm
Description

The display face of this specimen is richly coated with individual flat sprays of silky white metaswitzerite together with these sprays are shorter pink triploidite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Triploidite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)2(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.15
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA
Earthstones Australia

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