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Landesite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Cigana (Jocão), Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

Outstanding brown sharp crystals of this very rare mineral from a Brazilian locality.

Analyzed specimen by Raman and SEM-EDS, see copy attached.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Landesite

Formula: 
Mn2+3-xFe3+x(PO4)2(OH)x·(3-x)H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA

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