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Gayite Saléeite & Whitmoreite

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Gayite Saléeite & Whitmoreite

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Description
Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm
Description

Green spheres of gayite (a rare phosphate of dufrenite group) with bright yellow saleeite crystals and yellow tufts of whitmoreite; gayite is a new occourence for Sapucaia and was analyzed in California with XRD. Self collected on 2014

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gayite

Formula: 
NaMn2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Gigante pegmatite, Punilla Department, Córdoba, Argentina

Saléeite

Formula: 
Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·10H2O
Strunz: 
8.EB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Weißer Hirsch Mine (Shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Whitmoreite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA