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Kosnarite

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Description
Locality: 
Taquaral Seco Mine, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 4.1 × 2.1 cm
Description

a new occourence in Minas Gerais for this rare phosphate : the Taquaral Seco mine, that I visited pre-pandemia has recently produced these wonderful, colourless, bright kosnarite crystals, here on muscovite and albite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kosnarite

Formula: 
KZr2(PO4)3
Strunz: 
8.AC.60
Crystal System: 
Trigonal Pseudo-cubic
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA