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Yanomamite & Scorodite

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Yanomamite & Scorodite

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Description
Locality: 
Mangabeira Deposit, Monte Alegre de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm
Description

some vugs filled with pearl white balls of yanomamite also with dark green tiny scorodite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Yanomamite

Formula: 
InAsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mangabeira deposit, Monte Alegre de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil

Scorodite

Formula: 
Fe3+AsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Stamm Asser Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany