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Gayite & Saléeite

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Gayite & Saléeite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3 × 1.8 cm
Description

Some dark green balls of this extremely rare minerals, first occourence for Brazil, self collected on 2014 and XRD probed, with lustrous yellow saleeite crystals and minor whitmoreite

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