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Minyulite Aldermanite Fluellite & Wavellite

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Minyulite Aldermanite Fluellite & Wavellite

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 12.8 × 8.2 cm
Description

A fantastic large cabinet specimen from Toms Quarry. It is not often material from Toms Quarry presents as a good display quality specimen, this specimen proves the exception to the rule.

A large cavity that covers the display face and wraps around the side of this specimen. This cavity is lined with glassy crystals of fluellite and white wavellite, over which are scattered white blocky aldermanite & thick clear minyulite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Minyulite

Formula: 
KAl2(PO4)2(OH,F)·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Minyulo Well, Dandaragan, Dandaragan Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Aldermanite

Formula: 
Mg5Al12(PO4)8(OH)22·32H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Moculta Phosphate Quarry (Klemm's Quarry), Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia...

Fluellite

Formula: 
Al2(PO4)F2(OH)·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Stenna Gwyn Mine (Stennagwyn Mine), Foxhole, St Stephen-in-Brannel, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK

Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
Earthstones Australia

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