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Ushkovite Natrodufrénite & Leucophosphite

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Ushkovite Natrodufrénite & Leucophosphite

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 2.6 × 2.3 cm
Description

Pale yellowish tan transparent crystals of ushkovite associated with dark green to black natrodufrentite, white apaptite and aoffwhite spheriicals of leucophosphite.

A complex and attractively contrasting combination of unusual and uncommon phos[phate minerals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ushkovite

Formula: 
MgFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Pit No. 232, Bol'shoi Tatkul' Lake, Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Natrodufrénite

Formula: 
NaFe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Pluherlin Castle, Rochefort-en-Terre, Morbihan, Brittany, France

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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