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Mansfieldite

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Description
Locality: 
Perseverancia Mine, Guanaco, Santa Catalina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 3 × 1.4 cm
Description

Tiny bright blue-green gemmy mansfieldite crystals both as singles and clusters perch all over a contrasting yellowish crystallised matrix. The crystals quite closely resemble scorodite.

Mansfieldite is a member of the variscite group and is the aluminium analogue of scorodite.

From a rarely seen Chilean locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mansfieldite

Formula: 
AlAsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hobart Butte, Black Butte District, Lane Co., Oregon, USA
Vic's Vugh Minerals