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Correianevesite & Rockbridgeite

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Correianevesite & Rockbridgeite

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Description
Locality: 
Cigana (Jocão), Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Several red-brown correianevesite crystals on and with black rockbridgeite; this correianevesite is very lustrous and the best quality available; self collected on 2010

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Rockbridgeite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+4(PO4)3(OH)5
Strunz: 
8.BC.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Midvale Mine, South Mountain, Midvale, Rockbridge Co., Virginia, USA