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Wavellite & Planerite

Charles Trantham Estate (1936-2020)
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Description
Locality: 
Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

An excellent specimen of planerite with wavellite from Mauldin Mountain.   This specimen features balls of crystalline planerite with sharp colorless crystals of wavellite that were hard to capture in the photos.

From the estate of noted California field collector and dealer Charles Trantham who was known to frequent the field with the likes of Al McGuinness and Jack Parnau.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK

Planerite

Formula: 
Al6(PO4)2(HPO4)2(OH)8·4 H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.15
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Chernovskaya Mt, Chernaya River, Verkhnyaya Sysert', Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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