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Johnsomervilleite Cacoxenite Strengite & Saléeite

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Johnsomervilleite Cacoxenite Strengite & Saléeite

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Description
Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

some vugs opened in massive johnsomervilleite feature yellow tufts of cacoxenite, light pink balls of strengite and goos, bright yellow crystals of saleeite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Johnsomervilleite

Formula: 
Na10Ca6Mg18Fe25(PO4)36
Strunz: 
8.AC.50
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Loch Quoich, North West Highlands (Inverness-shire), Scotland, UK

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany

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