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Jahnsite-(MnMnMg) & Meurigite-K

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Jahnsite-(MnMnMg) & Meurigite-K

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Description
Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm
Description

a cluster of the new jahnsite-(MnMnMg) with white ball of meurigite-K and a tiny gordonite crystal; this new jahnsite specimen that I found four years ago in Sapucaia's dumps was analysed by Pietro Vignola

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jahnsite-(MnMnMg)

Formula: 
Mn2+Mn2+Mg2Fe3+2(PO4)4(OH)2 · 8H2O
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Meurigite-K

Formula: 
KFe3+8(PO4)6(OH)7·6.5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DJ.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Chino Mine (Santa Rita Pit; Santa Rita Mine), Santa Rita, Santa Rita District, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA