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Strengite Dufrénite & Laubmannite

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Strengite Dufrénite & Laubmannite

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Description
Locality: 
Indian Mountain, Cherokee County, Alabama, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Description

Old time specimen featuring some pink clusters of strengite with dark balls of dufrenite, tiny yellow balls of cacoxenite and green tufts of laubmannite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Strengite

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

Dufrénite

Formula: 
Ca0.5Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Anglar, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

Laubmannite

Mixture Of: 

Dufrénite

Formula: 
Ca0.5Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5

Kidwellite

Formula: 
NaFe3+9(PO4)6(OH)11·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.20
Hardness: 
3.0

Beraunite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)5·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.27
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Formula: 
Previously published; Fe2+3Fe3+6(PO4)4(OH)12
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4
Colour: 
Brown, Greenish brown, Grayish green, Yellow green, Dark green
Streak: 
Brownish
Type Locality: 
Shady, Polk County, Arkansas, USA