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Metaswitzerite

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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: 
1.1 × 7.1 × 3.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.10cm
Description

A shard of massive haematite is richly covered on one side with large flat radial sprays of off white metaswitzerite. What is particularily impressive is that one of the sprays extends more than 2.1 cm from its centre

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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