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Microlite & Gormanite

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Microlite & Gormanite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection.

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Description
Locality: 
Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Gormanite is an exremely rare phosphate.  This showy specimen consists of  lustrous, deep sea-green, radiating clusters of acicular crystals richly dispersed across a contrasting white bladed albite crystal matrix that is covered with hundreds of bright orange microlite crystals. An unusual and beautiful combination.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gormanite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mg)3(Al,Fe3+)4(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.45
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Earthstones Australia

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