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Ludlamite & Correianevesite

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Ludlamite & Correianevesite

rare minerals
Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Cigana (Jocão), Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm
Description

Light yellow crystals of ludlamite on brown bipiramidal correianevesite; self collected on 2009; XRD probed for ludlamite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ludlamite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mn,Mg)3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Jane (Falmouth Consolidated Mines), Baldhu, Kea, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

Correianevesite

Formula: 
Fe2+Mn2+2(PO4)2·3H2O
Hardness: 
3.5 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jocão pegmatite (Cigana claim), Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil