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Newberyite

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Description
Locality: 
Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

A crystalline ball of newberyite from it's type locality, the bat guano deposits in the Skipton Caves.   This deposit was all but worked out by 1895, making this a rather historic specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Newberyite

Formula: 
Mg(HPO4)·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Skipton Caves (Skipton lava caves; Mt Widderin Caves), Mt. Widderin (Anderson's Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia...

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