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Gayite & Saléeite

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Gayite & Saléeite

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Description
Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.6 × 2 cm
Description

Some groups of green balls of gayite with Yellow, bright saleeite; gayite is a rare phosphate of dufrenite group , first occourence for Brazil, self collected on 2014 and XRD proved

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