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Augelite

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Augelite

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Description
Locality: 
Machacamarca Mine, Machacamarca, Saavedra Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

This piece features a few fine, sharp, lustrous, colorless, gemmy crystals of augelite measuring up to 0.7cm associated with fine druzy quartzon matrix. The quality of the augelite crystals is very good and they are certainly good sized for this mine. This rare phosphate mineral is not seen from any locality and crystallised on both sides of this specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Augelite

Formula: 
Al2(PO4)(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BE.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Västanå Iron Mine (Westanå Mine), Näsum, Bromölla, Skåne, Sweden
Earthstones Australia

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