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Ferroan Variscite

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Ferroan Variscite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm
Description

Bright lusterous cranberry red crystals of variscite variety ferroan from a one off find in the late 1970's at the Iron monarch Opencut. Unlike many specimens of this species from iron Monarch the variscaite is not coated with another phosphate.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Variscite

Formula: 
AlPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Meßbach Quarry, Meßbach, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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