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Hannayite & Newberyite

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Hannayite & Newberyite

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Description
Locality: 
Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

Needles of hannayite (to 0.1mm) are in and on newberyite.

Both are type locality species.

The hannayite has been comfirmed by EDS. See http://www.mindat.org/photo-433483.html

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hannayite

Formula: 
(NH4)2Mg3H4(PO4)4·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.35
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...

Newberyite

Formula: 
Mg(HPO4)·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...

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