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Correianevesite

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Correianevesite

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Description
Locality: 
Cigana (Jocão), Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Correianevesite is very rare new mineral, approved in 2013 (IMA 2013-007), and only found in two localities worldwide, but being this one in Minas Gerais the best one, by far.

The mineral, that is a Fe-Mn phosphate, forms nice fan-like aggregates of brown very well defined crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Correianevesite

Formula: 
Fe2+Mn2+2(PO4)2·3H2O
Hardness: 
3.5 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jocão pegmatite (Cigana claim), Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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