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Eosphorite & Herderite

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Eosphorite & Herderite

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Description
Locality: 
Newry, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

Lightbrown crystals of Eosphorite up to 0.5 mm large and botryoidal white aggregates of Herderite up to 1 mm diameter are sitting on Albite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eosphorite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Fe2+)Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
8.DD.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

Herderite

Formula: 
CaBePO4(F,OH)
Strunz: 
8.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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