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Fluorwavellite Variscite & Lipscombite

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Fluorwavellite Variscite & Lipscombite

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Description
Locality: 
Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.2 × 2.2 cm
Description

several colourless fluorwavellite clusters on dark green lipscombite with white variscite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorwavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3½ - 4
Colour: 
Green to yellowish-green and yellow
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA Or Wood Mine, Del Rio, Del Rio District, Cocke Co., Tennessee, USA

Variscite

Formula: 
AlPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Meßbach Quarry, Meßbach, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

Lipscombite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BB.90
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Sapucaia Mine (Proberil mine), Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil