Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Correianevesite & Hureaulite

Views:
Watches:
SER787232

Correianevesite & Hureaulite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Cigana (Jocão), Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 3.3 × 3.1 cm
Description

a classic for brazilian mineralogy: several brown bipyramidal correianevesite crystals on and with pink clusters of hureaulite

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

Hureaulite

Formula: 
(Mn,Fe)5(PO4)2(HPO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France